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To: Joe NYC who wrote (237887)8/1/2007 5:46:12 AM
From: FJBRead Replies (2) of 275872
 
RE:So you think that Intel asked any customer to keep their volume with Intel over 80% or so and offered incentives to do so, based on something AMD thinks happened and hasn't been able to get anyone to verify.

First there is this.

Dell faces investor lawsuit over Intel pact

By Martha Graybow and Michele Gershberg
Reuters
Friday, February 2, 2007; 1:44 PM

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new investor lawsuit against Dell Inc. accuses the computer maker of improperly accounting for hundreds of millions of dollars in payments from long-time partner Intel Corp., a plaintiffs' attorney said on Friday.

The lawsuit accuses Dell of artificially inflating profits "by secretly receiving approximately $250 million a quarter in likely illegal rebate kickbacks payments" from Intel in return for an exclusive deal to purchase Intel's microprocessors, class-action lawyer William Lerach told Reuters.
washingtonpost.com


Secondly, as you stated there is the Japanese ruling.

Third, the AMD/Intel antitrust case is still in discovery. AMD lawyers are poring over the millions of emails/documents from Intel and all the big OEMs. We should know exactly how verifiable everything is once the trial starts, IF there is no settlement first.

Fourth, Intel LOST a huge amount of emails that might have verified the accusations of their pricing schemes.

There is probably a whole lot more...
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