The basic redress for abuses in the past I can understand, but it looks like the FTC is going a bit far. This is especially true for Intel’s higher-end GPU projects. Intel isn’t even a real player in that market, and they have every right to get into it. If, big IF, Intel has anti-competitive conduct down the road with GPUs, that can be settled then. Intel already knows the FTC is watching, so it would be dumb to try anything monopolistic like saying they’ll only sell CPUs to OEMs if they carry Intel GPUs too, or commit dumping again.
Preemptive anti-monopoly actions don’t make any sense.`
See the note about the ION and Intel’s refusal to sell the ATOM processor to Nvidia.