After the European Commission, and the State of New York, the well known federal US authority, the Federal Trade Commission decided to look closer at Intel's business strategies and practices. Without much surprise, as it was based on similar document already quoted by the European Commission in EU, the FTC decided to sue Intel, accusing the chip maker of using its dominant market position “to stifle competition and strengthen its monopoly". In the document, the FTC accuses Intel for having systematically blocked its rivals (mostly AMD) from selling their CPU by different strategies aiming to limit their access to the market.
Unlike the EC charges and complains from the State of New York mostly targeting Intel's monopoly based on rebates and co-marketing arrangements to persuade computer makers to use its CPUs instead of those from AMD, FTC complaints go beyond the CPU-centri
