SAN FRANCISCO — Intel Corp. has settled an antitrust lawsuit filed against it by the Federal Trade Commission.
The two sides confirmed the settlement late Tuesday, and the FTC scheduled a news conference for this morning to release details.
Intel’s major rival — Advanced Micro Devices Inc. — helped convince regulators around the world that Intel’s sales tactics harmed consumers and illegally injured rivals.
Intel is accused of bullying computer makers into avoiding rivals’ chips and sabotaging competitors’ attempts to get their chips to work with Intel’s.
The FTC suit is the harshest Intel has faced, and with the settlement, the FTC could impose the strictest rules yet on Intel’s behavior, potentially leading to lower prices for computers.
Intel owns about 80 percent of the world’s market for CPUs, the “brains” of computers. It owns more than 50 percent of the market for GPUs, chips designed to make graphics look good on computer screens.
