Federal Trade Commission regulators have made a second request for information in Compaq's (CPQ) pending acquisition of Digital Equipment (DEC), as questions loom whether regulators will extend their antitrust investigation to examine DEC's divestiture of its fabrication plant to Intel (INTC). "The agency may want to review these two transactions together," said Howard Morse, a former assistant director of the FTC's Bureau of Competition, the division responsible for antitrust enforcement in the computer industry. Morse noted that, last week, the FTC challenged two transactions involving the mergers of four pharmaceutical companies. FTC regulators said the agency would file a lawsuit in federal court to block McKesson's acquisition of AmeriSource Health, as well as Cardinal Health's merger of Bergen Brunswig. In looking at these two transactions, the FTC said the net affect would be a reduction in competition.