IT'S ABOUT TIME! It seemed as though the United States was the only country either not recognizing Intels "extortion/bribery" toward the OEMs. Sure a company could ignore Intels threats and then a few things would happen: 1. The OEM would find itself not able to get Intel components in a timely manner and not enough when they did get them. and 2. The Intel so called discount would either disappear or be minimized. 3. At the end of the quarters they would not get their advertising money for the amount they bought and they wouldn't get the "bribery" money at the end of the year. That last amount for Dell was typically $1 Billion a year only if the used Intel CPUs and Chipsets exclusively. If you don't belive me about the amount "given under the table" to Dell and others and these OEMs were told that NOT to file these amounts with the SEC, which in itself is a crime. Intel needs to be brought to justice in the U.S. once and for all and AMD should be the recipient of punitive damages since at one point AMD had a superior product but was suppressed from use by the major OEMs by Intel. Had Intel not paid off the OEMs and it was a level playing field AMD would be in much better fiscal shape as they would have made profits that they could have put back into R&D and no telling what the balance between them would be now but it would be far better than AMD is doing now due to Intels criminal activity.