A court-appointed special master has rejected class-action status in an antitrust lawsuit against Intel. The complaint, filed in 2005, consolidates more than 80 separate cases that generally accuse Intel of wrongfully offering discounts to computer manufacturers and causing computer prices to be artificially inflated. Intel paid US$1.25 billion last November to settle that case, in which it admitted no wrongdoing. Intel discounts to PC makers effectively caused them to reject use of AMD chips, complainants argued, bolstering Intel’s dominance in the market.”]
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