Intel gets subpoena from New York
THE NEW YORK State attorney general, Andrew Cuomo, has asked Intel to provide documents as part of an investigation into antitrust practices.
Cuomo is investigating whether Intel’s pricing policies contravene antitrust legislation and dominate the X86 marketing.
Cuomo released a statement saying that his lawyers were investigating whether or not Intel abused its powers to quash competition. By competition, he means AMD.
"After careful preliminary review, we have determined that questions raised about Intel's potential anticompetitive conduct warrant a full and factual investigation,” said Cuomo.
"Protecting fair and open competition in the microprocessor market is critical to New York, the United States, and the world. Businesses and consumers everywhere should have the ability to easily choose the best products at the best price and only fair competition can guarantee it. Monopolistic practices are a serious concern particularly for New Yorkers who are navigating an information-intensive economy.”
He continued: "Our investigation is focused on determining whether Intel has improperly used monopoly power to exclude competitors or stifle innovation.”
He said: "We will also look at whether Intel abused its power to remove competitive threats or harm competition in violation of New York and federal antitrust laws."
Intel's share price fell on the news and at press time stands at $22.40. AMD's recovered slightly, and stands at $5.79. µ
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Yep Near Albany, NewYork :) All the help AMD can get hey
Does the IBM that's still in New York make CPUs? Didn't the state just throw a lot of money at AMD to build a fab in Stillwater, NY?
Can anyone be surprised at this? After the EU, JTC and KTC call Intel a monopoly, why not New York? For all you people who think AMD is just whining, what do you think the impact on AMD was when Intel was blocking sales to customers when AMD was kicking Intel's butt: AMD was forced to lower prices on butt-whipping X2 which limited the amount of money they could spend on Barcelona and Phenom development to get it out on-time with the expected features. Instead, they didnt have the money and had to rush it out before its time. The Intel monopoly machine killed Barcelona.
Read this

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=650977&category=OPINION&newsdate=12/30/2007

NY residents don't want or need to bankroll this. It appears as if the Gov and other politicians have much at stake and are being friendly to AMD so that it "chooses NY over Germany"

Mighty coincidental that AMD has a planned Fab for New York is'nt it!
The jurisdiction should be Santa Clara Country, CALIFORNIA, where the headquarters of two companies in question reside, not New York.
Its about time someone put there foot down. The way it is going the US is starting to look the UK with its monoplized businesses.
CPUs are great, but whoever controls the MB NB & SB chipsets is the traffic cop for all buses. How long ago was it that 16X crossfire was proposed? 7 years? Now Intel is finally supporting 4 PCI 2 slots at 16X, but only on Skulltrail specs, as opposed to either 1 16X or 2 8X lanes. Why aren't combinations including Intel CPU and AMD RS780 chipsets even remotely possible, albeit piece-worked with other (possibly Intel) chips. Forgive my ignorance if this is not a viable gripe. Why aren't S-ATA ii busses in use for GPUs? The bandwidth is there. Again, I'm not a board designer, but it seems we're eeked upon, waiting for every little advance. Why are we mandated to accepting short-comings in chipset series that otherwise offer a desired capability? I realize that GM doesn't offer a heads-up display on every Cadillac model, either. But the nature of the motherboard is, or should be that it inheritantly incur greater variations between vendor designs, owing to the contribution of competing industry standards suppliers. Intel should integrate their memory controllers into their processors; but what's to stop SoC integration of LAN, also? Wouldn't that seriously hurt Gigabyte and Marvel? to name a few. I dunno.
A waste of tax payer dollars that will lead nowhere...
Quite right, above comments, the AMD deal, in my home state, cost us tax payers 150 M in infrastructure whose purpose is now rendered useless by AMD’s dismal failures. It’s a strategy where the politicians are covering their asses for the waste. Their also pissed their plans to GIVE AMD 1.5 BILLION in grants and subsidies have been squashed. 

Yes, IBM has two Fabs here, strictly for R+D outsource to company intent on high volume production. Do you see how nicely they helped AMD with SOI? 

SPARKS 
Intel cannot even backup their email when so ordered by the court ,they rely on each individual executive to do so.
Remember that fiasco as reported here ?
So why worry that they will change tactics know with a politician who only wants press not actual change.
Andrew wants to see his name in the press so they will know who he is when he tries to run for Governor of New York State again.
He failed in his first attempt for that office.
IBM owns a plant or fab or something in Fishkill, NY...NY offered some ungodly amount, i believe almost half of what it would cost, for them to build a fab in a technology park in Malta, NY. About 20 minutes north of me in Albany. They've been talking about it forever, however, and no real developments thus far. Talk about a big tease...
OK, Intel probably did a lot of bad things. 

But right now, the only thing slowing down innovation is the AMD's inability to produce faster CPUs. So, they subpoena would have been better sent to Intel a few years back when it was Athlon vs Pentium 4!
Come on, wake up and smell the $$$. This is a partial ploy to deflate intels stock price. Now intel doing something illegal? I can't say. But this litigation madness that everyone is in will only end badly.
Bottom line is this . If Intel can show AMD fabs were running at full . AMD doesn't have a case. AMD reversed engineered the 386 . Because of an agreement. With IBM Intel was powerless to stop AMDs theft of its tech. IBM is the real problem A traitor to our country in WW2 and A company scared to death of intel . They should be to . Because the teams are now aligned. 

I pick the Intel Sun Apple team . 

You will know soon enough why I picked sun . Boy are you guys in for a shocker.
IBM has benefited from NYS funding and tax breaks. Now they are selling this t echnology to the Chinese. What is the return for NYS? AMD lost in the marketplace fair and square. They let their customers down and had the decency to admit it. Cuomo should talk to some AMD customers and find out why they bought AMD's products and now why they are buying Intel's. AMD has a long history of manufacturing problems and should not be blaming others for their current predicament.
It's been time to put the foot down, put a stop to Intel's unethical business practices. It has been slowly and steadily killing the business while making billion of dollars in the process. We're left with the basic same design for at least the last decade, only major difference is manufacturing and speed. There's no innovation in that, AMD can't compete with Intel on manufacturing either - only speed and only one of the two doesn't allow proper competition. We need a real alternative to Intel and I think it's time to kill the beast to make it happen for real.