According to the article:
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- An investor lawsuit seeking class-action status accuses Dell Inc. of improper accounting in its relationship with chip giant Intel Corp., according to a media report published Thursday evening.
The suit, filed late Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Austin, Texas, alleges that Dell failed to properly account for and disclose quarterly rebates from Intel that inflated profits by hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a story in The Wall Street Journal's online edition. See Wall Street Journal story (subscription required).
The suit alleges that Dell received at times as much as $1 billion a year in "secret and likely illegal" kickbacks in the form of "e-Cap" or "exception to corporate average pricing" payments" from Intel to ensure that Dell used no other chip supplier, according to The Journal. Specifically, the complaint alleges that Dell received payments from Intel for not doing business with American Micro Devices. Inc.
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