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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Joe NYC who wrote (113784)6/1/2000 7:49:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis  Read Replies (1) of 1573651
 
RE:"What AMD should do is tell Gateway: "You want a 100,000 chips? Ok, here is a 100,000 Athlons, with this speed distribution and our asking price is $250 per CPU. You mark them however you want to mark them (up to the spec) and sell them however you want to sell them."

BTW, from what I hear the T-bird and Duron (socketed) have the "speed" lasered in to the package so it can't easily be counterfeited. They are multiplier locked as well. This could make "goldfingering" a tad more interesting.
Might be a tad difficult to let a OEM mark chips.
Nor would I trust them not to just mark them high and re-sell them.

Jim
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