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LED Date: 6/28/2005 6:23:02 AM (GMT-7)
IP Address: 4.252.91.51 In Reply to: AMD Files Antitrust Suit Against Intel posted by
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>According to AMD, Michael Capellas, former chief executive of Compaq Computer Corp., told AMD in 2000 that Intel withheld the delivery of some microprocessors he needed for servers because of the amount of business he had given to AMD.
He told AMD he would stop buying from it, saying he ``had a gun to his head,'' according to a statement from AMD today. Capellas is now Chief Executive Officer of MCI Inc.
`Risk of Retaliation'
Office Depot Inc., the world's second-largest office supplies retailer, refused to stock laptop computers that were powered with AMD's chips because it was concerned about the ``risk of retaliation,'' according to AMD
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