Replies to post #84693 on Intel Corp (INTC)

[Elmer Phud]

Sorry, but this doesn't smell like any kind of volume discounting, it sounds very much like a massive kickback to exclude a competitors product entirely. Very much illegal.

Didn't your mother teach you there are 2 sides to every story? It's easy to convince someone of anything when you can cherry pick through millions of emails and present only one side. Unlike you, I prefer to hear both sides before I am convinced.

[Windsock]

Try reading this without the inflammatory comments added by the NY AG and you get an entirely different impression. Basically, Intel is saying to Dell: if you want to receive Intel marketing funds you have to use the funds to market Intel-based products. If you want to market AMD products, use AMD's money or your money

Here is how the material would read if you delete the inflammatory advocacy.

141 [reformatted] ]In an April 29 email to other top Dell executives, Michael Dell wrote: “We have been looking at the situation for a long time, and have decided to introduce a broad range of AMD based systems into our product line to provide the choice our customers are asking for.”

142 [reformatted] Craig Barrett, Intel’s Board Chairman, responded that Dell should start paying “list prices.” Barrett told Ottelini: “[T]hey have just signaled they are only interested in being a transaction based customer. I think you should reply in kind. Not a time for weakness on our part. Stop writing checks immediately and put them back on list prices asap.”

143. [reformatted] The direction Otellini gave his subordinates the next day was consistent with Barrett’s advice. “We should be prepared to remove all mcp and related programs. Post haste… then we ought to enter negotiations.”