The report provides some of the first public details of Intel's pricing policies and complex multi-tiered rebates and discounts it offers OEMs on an ad hoc basis. The details of negotiating the deals are conducted "at the highest levels" of Intel and the companies involved, often orally or over email, according to the report.

The discounts created an anti-competitive situation, the EC alleged. For example, it details several discount programs Intel offered Dell during 2003-2005 when it was considering use of the Opteron server processors of Advanced Micro Devices.

In an internal Dell presentation of 17 March 2003, Dell stated: "Anticipated Intel response wipes out all potential upside from going with AMD." the report said. Another internal Dell presentation asked, "How much of the Intel funding would be pulled if we moved a portion of our processor spend to AMD?"

The report also details allegations related to Acer, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, NEC and others.

The report says Intel alleged that the Commission's enquiry has been "discriminatory and partial, blindly adopted wholesale AMD's theories and allegations blaming Intel's pricing and other conduct for each AMD failure to win the business of the OEMs." Intel also charged the EC "has distorted the evidence and the record" and is guilty of "suppression of exculpatory evidence."

The Commission said it considers that there are no grounds for the serious allegations made by Intel. In a press conference earlier this year Intel chief executive Paul Otellini declined to publically supply any of the exculpatory evidence it claims to have.