Read up on your English lit. Or older American prose, for that matter. You'll find that it used to be pretty common as a way to emphasize key nouns and adjectives.

the article will likely be filled with factual errors as well as spelling mistakes?

Monopoly issues aside, Intel must still be making a profit despite "throwing money away" for these bribes or price dumps or whatever they're accused of - otherwise they wouldn't be doing it. That means the are indeed able to compete on price, which suggests their products aren't so out-of-whack with the market as you seem to imply.