AMD has been battling it out with Intel in the courts in the US.

About a year ago, we were able to get a teleconference with AMD Executive VP and general counsel, Tom McCoy, the details of which I posted here after a personal follow-on interview with Tom.

Well, a couple of weeks ago, the other shoe dropped, with the United States Federal Trade Commission, FTC, escalating their former informal inquiry into Intel's trade practices into a formal full-blown investigation.

After that, a cascade of (mostly) bad news has been dropping for Intel.

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