Korea Fair Trade Commission investigators allege Intel violated antitrust laws
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Korea Fair Trade Commission investigators allege Intel violated that country's antitrust laws, marking the third time in the past two years that an international government has taken a deeper look into Intel's business practices.
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Global computer memory chip  makers including Samsung Electronics Co. and Micron Technology  Inc. were sued on Thursday by New York Attorney General Eliot  Spitzer for allegedly conspiring to raise memory chip prices.
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The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) has launched four investigations involving the import of computers or electronic device components, including one based on a complaint that several companies are violating patents on DRAM chips.
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In a lawsuit, the commission alleges that two companies engaged in unfair acts and practices with their marketing and software.
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Antitrust investigators in South Korea have wrapped up a two-year probe into Intel Corp.'s activities in the country, the company said Tuesday.
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The New York attorney general has launched a formal investigation  to determine whether Intel violated antitrust laws to squeeze out AMD.
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New York state launched a formal  investigation of Intel Corp  on Thursday, to determine  if the world's No. 1 chipmaker broke state and U.S. antitrust  laws to squeeze out its main rival, Advanced Micro Devices Inc  .
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New York state launched a formal investigation on Thursday to determine if Intel Corp, the world's biggest chipmaker, violated state and U.S. antitrust laws to squeeze out rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
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New York state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has launched an antitrust investigation of Intel, and on Thursday, his office served a wide-ranging subpoena on the company.Cuomo is investigating whether Intel violated state and federal antitrust laws by coercing customers to exclude its main rival, Advanced Micro Devices, from the worldwide market for PC CPUs (central processing units), Cuomo said in a news release.The subpoena seeks information on Intel&#8217;s pricing practices and possible attempts to exclude competitors through its market power, Cuomo&#39;s office said.(More to come.)
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Intel dishes up its response to the European Commission's allegations it violated antitrust laws with its rebate practice. The Commission is the latest agency to weigh in with allegations Intel is using its rebates to reduce, or shut out, competition in t
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(InfoWorld) - A federal grand jury indicted two men in California of conspiring to steal high tech trade secrets and develop them with venture capital funding they sought to obtain from China. The two, Lan Lee, 42, of Palo Alto and Yuefei Ge, 34, of San Jose, are accused of trying to steal trade secrets from their employer, chip maker NetLogics Microsystems. The indictment indicates the two allegedly hoped to win funding from China's General Arms Department and the 863 program, which is a government-led project aimed at boosting technology research in China. Lee is an American, while Ge is a Chinese national. The grand jury indicted the men on a total of six counts, including two counts of conspiracy and as well as two counts of economic espionage and two of theft of trade secrets, said a statement issued Wednesday and attributed to Scott Schools, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California. A large amount of evidence against the two men appears to have come from their home computers, according to the original indictment made on June 15. Wednesday's indictment supersedes that one. Lee allegedly downloaded chip technology belonging to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) from a server at NetLogics and installed it on his home computer sometime between May, 2002 and the end of July, 2003; while Ge allegedly installed data sheets for network coprocessor chips from NetLogics on his home computer around the same time. The two men also allegedly established a Delaware company, SICO Microsystems, to further develop the technologies and sell them in tandem with a Chinese venture capital company, Beijing FBNI Electronic Technology Development Co. "SICO agreed with FBNI to develop and sell microprocessor chips and to assist in securing funding for SICO," the original indictment says. The original indictment makes no mention of possible involvement by the government of China. The two men had been released on the original indictment on $300,000 bonds. Their next court appearance in the superseding indictment is Oct. 29, 2007. NetLogic and TSMC cooperated with the investigation, the statement says.
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A recent raid on Intel's Munich office by EC investigators is the latest in a long history of antitrust woes.
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New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is investigating possible violations of state and federal antitrust laws by Intel Corp., the world's largest manufacturer of computer microprocessors.
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The European Commission on Wednesday expanded its investigation to determine whether public institutions in Europe gave an unfair advantage to Intel Corp.
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South Korean flat screen maker LG.Philips LCD Co. Ltd.   on Monday said it was being investigated by fair trade watchdogs from Korea and Japan and had received a subpoena from the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Wants more vigorous FTC probing The American Antitrust Institute (AAI), a Washington DC lobby group, has written an open letter to the Federal Trade Commission urging an investigation of Intel's allegedly monopolistic business practices.â¦
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The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) has launched four investigations involving the import of computers or electronic device components, including one based on a complaint that several companies are violating patents on DRAM chips.The USITC also voted to launch an investigation, based on a complaint by IBM, into the import of motherboards, graphics cards, notebook computers, server computers, bare-bones computers, and routers by Asustek Computer of Taiwan and Asus Computer International of Fremont, Calif.In the DRAM case, Tessera of San Jose, Calif., filed a complaint on Dec. 7 alleging that 18 companies violated its patents for semiconductor chips with a minimized chip package size. Acer and Kingston Technology are among the companies named in Tessera&#39;s complaint.The commission on Friday also announced it has initiated so-called 337 investigations into the import of silicon microphone packages used in mobile phones and semiconductor lasers used in disc drives.In the Tessera complaint, the company accused competitors of violating four semiconductor patents. The company has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, as well as the USITC complaint. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted reexamination requests on two of those patents.Representatives of Acer and Kingston didn&#39;t immediately respond to a request for comments on the USITC investigation.IBM filed a complaint on Dec. 5, asking the USITC to bar Asustek and North American subsidiary Asus Computer International from importing equipment using PC power supplies, cooling fans, and clustering technologies into the United States. IBM accused Asustek of infringing three patents related to those technologies.IBM attempted to reach a licensing agreement with Asustek after a licensing deal expired in December 2004, an IBM spokesman said in December. An Asus spokeswoman didn&#39;t immediately respond to a request for comments.The semiconductor laser complaint covers lasers used in high-definition disc drives. The investigation is based on a complaint filed by Seoul Semiconductor of Korea on Dec. 4, alleging that Nichhia of Japan has violated its patent.In the silicon microphone case, the patented technology covers microphones in several devices, including mobile phones. The complaint, filed by Knowles Electronics of Itasca, Ill., on Dec. 6, alleges that Mems Technology Berhad of Malaysia has violated its patents.The cases will be referred to an administrative law judge, who will schedule and hold an evidentiary hearing. The judge will make an initial determination as to whether there is a violation of Section 337 of the U.S. Tariff Act of 1930. That initial determination is subject to review by the USITC.Within 45 days, the commission will set a target date for completing the investigations.