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To: Elmer Phud who wrote (253094)	6/9/2008 5:40:39 PM
From: gvatty	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

I don't know, if Otellini made public comments in 2007 that Intel's products were 4-8 years behind AMD's products, Intel might do it. Message 24608397 They wouldn't do it in the manner your describing. Assume an oem buys 800,000 Intel chips each quarter and 200,000 AMD chips each quarter. I can see an Intel salesperson saying if you buy 1 million chips from us I will give you a rebate of x. The rebate wouldn't have to connected to a promise of exclusivity the rebate could apply if the oem buys 900,000 or 950,000 chips from Intel. The oem could then decide they might as well go all-Intel so they don't have to buy the AMD motherboards and other peripherals.