View Full Version : Japan Raids Intel on Competition Concerns
Sun Baked Apr 8, 2004, 02:56 PM Japan Raids Intel on Competition
Concerns (http://news.findlaw.com/ap_stories/high_tech/1700/4-8-
2004/20040408063001_11.html)  By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press
Writer  TOKYO (AP) - Japan's Fair Trade Commission raided
offices of Intel Corp. on Thursday on suspicion the world's
semiconductor leader pressured personal computer manufacturers
to spurn competitors' products, a commission official said.
Fair trade authorities suspect that Intel improperly urged
clients not to include central processing units - the key chips
that do computers' thinking - manufactured by Advanced Micro
Devices and other companies, said Masaru Matsuo, a manager at
the Fair Trade Commission.  The raid covered three Intel
locations across Japan, including the company's Tokyo
headquarters, and comes exactly six weeks after the commission
raided offices of Microsoft Corp. in a probe of alleged anti-
competitive practices by the world's most pow