In a statement, Cuomo said he is investigating whether Intel forced its customers to lock out Intel rival Advanced Micro Devices from the market for the so-called x86 processors that power the world's personal computers.

FORBES: New York AG To Probe Intel

In a statement, Cuomo said he is investigating whether Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) forced its customers to lock out Intel rival Advanced Micro Devices (nyse: AMD - news - people ) from the market for the so-called x86 processors that power the world's personal computers.

FORBES: New York AG To Probe Intel

Last month, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo launched an investigation into whether Intel forced its customers to lock out rival AMD, mirroring a case filed by AMD against Intel in 2005 in a U.S. District Court in Delaware.

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It filed an antitrust lawsuit in June alleging that Intel engages in anticompetitive behavior designed to lock AMD out of market for PC and server microprocessors.

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Frankly, we don't buy the PR line: it's not sustainable for Intel to constantly "give away" their machines, so the payoff is inevitably going to be some sort of lock-in by getting there first.

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