FTC won’t ask Intel to break up

The Federal Trade Commission may have a pretty big beef with Intel, but it looks like won’t be going as far as to seek a breakup of the company. That word comes straight from the director of the FTC’s Bureau of Competition, Richard Feinstein, who flatly told reporters yesterday that the FTC has “no goal of breaking up Intel.” In case you missed it, this follows a lawsuit that the FTC filed against Intel earlier in the day yesterday, which alleges that the company has engaged in “anticompetitive tactics.” As you can see above, NVIDIA has already responded to that development in its usual manner.

[Image courtesy Intel's Insides / NVIDIA]

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