Deceptive methods Intel accused of practicing

By A Bisht

Recently Intel paid Archrival AMD $ 1.25 billion dollars as compensation and promised not to indulge in future in activities which stifle the growth of AMD.

Talking further about the deceptive methods companies use in order to kill the competition; Intel is accused by the FTC of indulging in the following practices to grow itself and harm the competitors:

--Intel used threats, bundled prices, or other offers to encourage exclusive deals, hamper competition by secretly redesigning certain software to degrade the performance of other manufacturers' CPUs and now GPUs, or unfairly manipulate the prices of its CPU or GPU chips --------