Ruiz didn't shirk away from taking on Intel even in the courts in the United States where a civil antitrust lawsuit filed against Intel in 2005 is scheduled to go to trial next March in Delaware, according to a spokesman for the company. In Korea and Japan, regulators have issued findings against Intel for anti-trust practices. AMD, under Ruiz, has protested stridently to regulators in North America, Europe and Japan what it deemed anti-trust practices on the part of Intel.