AMD files Anti-trust suit against Intel

SUNNYVALE, CA - June 28, 2005 - AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced today that it filed an antitrust complaint against Intel Corporation ("Intel") yesterday in U.S. federal district court for the district of Delaware under Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act, Sections 4 and 16 of the Clayton Act, and the California Business and Professions Code. The 48-page complaint explains in detail how Intel has unlawfully maintained its monopoly in the x86 microprocessor market by engaging in worldwide coercion of customers from dealing with AMD. It identifies 38 companies that have been victims of coercion by Intel - including large scale computer-makers, small system-builders, wholesale distributors, and retailers, through seven types of illegality across three continents.

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The list of identified companies includes:

Sony
Toshiba
Fujitsu
NEC
Hitachi
Gateway/eMachine
Supermicro
HP - AMD offered 1 million free CPU due to the demand of HP, however Intel gave pressure and HP end up only took 160,000 of them. (Hi, Can I have the rest?)
IBM

Umm, could you sum this up in a few sentances cause im lost :(

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