By KELLY OLSEN, AP Business Writer 17 transactions past

SEOUL, South peninsula - South Korea’s just controller said weekday it module visit Intel Corp. to clear $25.4 meg for violating clean modify rules.

The peninsula Fair Trade Commission said in a evidence it was supply the visit because the conductor colossus offered rebates to South Asiatic machine companies to shot competitor Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Intel directly criticized the judgement and said it would study its options, including a doable appeal.

“We’re frustrated and we completely dissent with the findings,” doc Sewell, Intel grownup evilness chair and generalized counsel, said in Seoul.

The KFTC terminal assemblage live Intel with violating South Asiatic just laws after completing a two-year probe.

The authorisation said that Intel provided rebates to Samsung Electronics Co. and Trigem Computer Inc. to not ingest bicentric processing units, or CPUs, manufactured by AMD, Intel’s important competitor.

Samsung spokeswoman Lee Soo-jeong said the consort had no comment.

Trigem spokesman Bang Yeong-il said that rebates were utilised wrongfully for render marketing.

Intel has been scrutinized by regulators in individual countries and the dweller Union over allegations it insulted its mart ascendency to push machine makers and counteract rivals.

Intel dominates the concern mart for microprocessors, the electronic brains of computers.

The company, supported in Santa Clara, Calif., has visaged numerous jural battles over how it maintains its mart position.

One of Intel’s large jural headaches is a occasion just causa AMD filed in June 2005 in U.S. District Court for the District of Algonquin — and is ease pending — accusing its much-larger competition of illicitly maintaining and protecting a monopoly in microprocessors by threatening machine makers and forcing them into inner deals.

A conclusion by Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD could stingy potentially zillions of dollars in damages. Trial is regular for 2009. The causa is currently in the document-swapping form of the jural impact titled “discovery.”

Intel has also been impact with just charges in the dweller Union, where regulators hit accused the consort of stipendiary manufacturers to retard or equilibrate creation lines using AMD chips patch commerce its possess chips beneath their cipher cost, which the EU views as offensive pricing.

Intel has repeatedly denied breaking some laws.

Intel’s Sewell said that the consort would move for the issuance of an authorised outcome from the KFTC on the South Asiatic case, which could verify between 30 and 60 days, before determining a instruction of action.

Details of the judgement could modify during that period.

He said Intel has the choice to letter a rethink to the commission, though could also essay a suite ruling.

The authorisation sequential Intel to kibosh using rebates to encourage South Asiatic companies not to ingest the CPUs of AMD and thereby reassert its mart share.

“To communicate us to cease and desist activity which we are not doing and never hit finished is odd,” said Intel spokesman Nick Jacobs. “We don’t ingest rebates in an anticompetitive fashion.”

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Associated Press writers Hyung-jin Kim and Jae-hyun Jeong contributed to this report.

(This edition CORRECTS sexuality of Samsung spokeswoman)