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    New York: Intel's agreements to lower CPU prices led to overcharges
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    But as the suit states explicitly: "As Dell's lead negotiator with Intel put it in a December 7, 2004 e-mail to his Intel counterpart, explaining that Michael Dell wanted an additional $400 million rebate payment from Intel: 'This is really easy... MSD [Michael Dell] wants $400M [million] more. I've been trying to figure out the structure...'" The suit does reveal, however, where Intel was willing to throw its weight around. Full Article at BetaNews
    As Dell's lead negotiator with Intel put it in a December 7, 2004 e-mail to his Intel counterpart, explaining that Michael Dell wanted an additional $400 million rebate payment from Intel: 'This is really easy... MSD [Michael Dell] wants $400M [million] more. I've been trying to figure out the structure...'
    SOURCE: BetaNews 3 weeks ago
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New York: Intel's agreements to lower CPU prices led to overcharges
  1. Intel forced OEMs to choose between having a 'strategic' or a 'transactional' relationship with Intel ... In Intel's parlance, a 'strategic' relationship was one with a high degree of exclusivity or 'alignment.' An OEM which opened itself to a relationship with another microprocessor supplier -- AMD -- ...
    SOURCE: BetaNews 3 weeks ago
  2. We disagree with the New York Attorney General
    SOURCE: BetaNews 3 weeks ago
  3. In preparation for upcoming funding negotiations with Intel in 2002, a Dell executive, who regularly acted as an informal liaison between Dell and Intel, explained that Intel would not tolerate a Dell shift to AMD CPUs
    SOURCE: BetaNews 3 weeks ago
  4. Specifically, this Dell executive wrote to Michael Dell and others: 'If [Dell starts to use] AMD [CPUs], [Intel] would just give a [competitor] MOAP type dollars to match whatever we're getting -- they won't sit around and let us transfer share to AMD…'
    SOURCE: BetaNews 3 weeks ago

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