The legal challenges to Intel Corp.'s sales tactics mounted yesterday as New York's attorney general accused the world's biggest computer-chip-maker of using "illegal threats and collusion" to dominate.
In filing a federal antitrust lawsuit, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo accused Intel of using its market prowess to "rule with an iron fist." Intel's chips act as the "brains" of 80 percent of the world's personal computers. Cuomo said that Intel paid billions of dollars in kickbacks to computer manufacturers and retaliated against those that did too much business with Intel's competitors, namely Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
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