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Intel has responded to the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust investigation, unsurprisingly challenging the FTC’s allegations as well as criticizing the agency for what the company calls an attempt “to turn Intel into a public utility”.

The motion is a response to the FTC’s December announcement of a lawsuit brought by the FTC, accusing Intel of anticompetitive practices.

The motion, filed on Dec. 31 before the hubbub of the Consumer Electronics Show, comes out swinging, with an inflammatory quote by AMD’s then-vice president of sales, Henri Richard. “If you look at it, with an objective set of eyes, you would never buy AMD,” Richard is quoted as saying, “internally”. “I certainly would never buy AMD for a personal system if I wasn’t working here.”