Intel had asked the FTC to bar Commissioner Thomas Rosch from hearing the agencys lawsuit against the chipmaker because of his prior work with Intel. The FTC declined, saying Roschs involvement with Intel was long ago and irrelevant to the current case, which accuses Intel of anticompetitive behavior in its dealings with AMD and Nvidia.
– Intel has lost its bid to have one of the commissioners participate
in the Federal Trade Commissions lawsuit against the giant chip maker.
Hours before the FTC filed the antitrust complaint against
Intel, officials with the company petitioned the commission to have
Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch d…