Intel is playing with rabates/rewards to this day, often bigger retailers receive free Intel products for hitting sale numbers tuned in a certain personalized w

Intel is playing with rabates/rewards to this day, often bigger retailers receive free Intel products for hitting sale numbers tuned in a certain personalized way forcing them to push Intel only. MCP (Meet Comp Program) were enormous, up to $1B a year to DELL alone. AMD got wrecked by this just when Intel was most vulnerable (P4). This case shows that owing $1B dollars is not the problem for the one that owes the money, but for the party being owed. $1B buys you a LOT of top lawyers to argue your case to death, sooner or later you will be able to pay someone off to make it go away.