[AP] The Intel Corporation, the computer chip maker, is claiming in court documents that European Union regulators made serious mistakes in levying a record fine of €1.06 billion (US$1.45 billion) last May on a charge of illegally restricting a competitor.In a legal plea published Tuesday in the European Union’s Official Journal, Intel is asking a European Union court to overturn the antitrust decision or reduce the “manifestly disproportionate” fine.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/16/technology/companies/16chip.html