Advanced Micro Devices ( AMD ) plan to charge a ill with the German contention self-confidence regarding alleged Intel anticompetitive behavior , a company spokeswoman say on Thursday .
The ill relates to anticompetitive behavior reported in the German press last calendar week , said AMD spokeswoman Hollis Krym . On July 3 , a report in the Financial Times Deutschland alleged that Intel devote German retail chain Media Markt not to stock microcomputer containing AMD processors , citing a alphabetic character to a provider in which the retailer say it would only buy microcomputer with Intel processors .
Krym would not discuss the cognitive content of AMD ’s complaint , but said AMD has grounds exchangeable to the letter cited in the news composition last week .
Germany ’s competition sureness received a complaint last Thursday regarding the alleged anticompetitive behavior , it said earlier this week . At the clip , AMD said it could n’t substantiate that it had lodge a ailment although on Tuesday Jens Drews , director of government relations for AMD Europe , said that AMD had already made some submission regarding the situation to the competition say-so . The agency does n’t have a formal complaint operation and a simple letter of the alphabet suffice as a complaint , said Irene Sewczyk , a spokeswoman for the challenger authority .
AMD file a cause in the U.S. last yr charging Intel with anticompetitive behavior . In the suit of clothes , AMD describe several retailers around the world , including Media Markt , that it says hold to exclusively deal Intel - based mathematical product or gibe to keep sales of AMD - ground product at a belittled percentage of their total sale in return for payment from Intel . Some of the retail merchant named let in Dixons , PC World and Time in the U.K. and Conforama and Boulanger in France .
Krym is n’t cognizant of any other AMD filings with challenger authorities in other countries regarding those company , she say .
Media Markt earlier this week decline to answer questions regarding the position , saying that it does n’t comment on ongoing legal legal proceeding .
Intel is n’t aware of any filings at the German contender authority , and believe its business pattern are lawful , it pronounce on Tuesday .
