Its a continuation of meet comp bribing scheme, same that earned $1B penalty they somehow managed to dodge recently https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202

Its a continuation of meet comp bribing scheme, same that earned $1B penalty they somehow managed to dodge recently https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-26/intel-wins-eu-court-bid-to-annul-1-2-billion-antitrust-fine https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-26/intel-win... OEMs/ODMs/System Integrators get awards for shipping intel products, but instead of pure cash like in 2000 its hardware and rebates. Until very recently intel was giving out SSDs for free, probably switched to something else since they dont make those anymore.