Intel is currently facing different legal challenges. The FTC and the attorney general are investigating Intel for bribery (taking the form of rebates to big PC sellers like Dell) and for attempts to monopolize the industry. The EU already fined Intel for 1.1 billion dollar. The main competitor of Intel is AMD and this company had a few years back the opportunity to eat some of the market share of Intel. After the law suits announcements, the share values of Intel and AMD barely moved however, suggesting that the window of opportunity for rebalancing market shares has passed and that the antitrust suits will only provide (possibly) compensation to AMD but without significant change for consumers.
