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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (113792)6/1/2000 8:37:00 PM
From: Joe NYC  Read Replies (2) of 1573696
 
Jim,

I would be happy to take 1M Athlons at $250/ea, mark them at 1000 Mhz and sell them for $500 or whatever.

You would not be able to run them outside of spec. But if you have a surplus of legitimate high MHz parts, go ahead and sell them.

why should I pay $600 from you when I can get them for $500 from Gateway or "Mhz Sells micro

What we hear is that AMD has a lot of demand for less expensive parts. How the more expensive parts gets sold, as long as they get sold should be irrelevant.

I think the main point is that AMD competes with Intel, not with itself. This is a major difference from Intel. Intel products mainly compete with other Intel products. For AMD to downbin own parts, to make them less competitive compared to Intel is equivalent of shooting yourself in the foot.

An unconstrained availability of high speed AMD parts may cause problems for OEM's in their positioning of Intel Pentium line against the AMD line. But that's their fr&*^%ng problem. AMD should not cooperate by donwbinning their own chips so that the OEM doesn't have a problem moving Intel parts.

Just look at Gateway, for example, (which seems to be moving to AMD corner), but still, look at their lineup: gateway.com

They list the products in descending order. They still position the Intel line first, as a Performance product, AMD as a Select (whatever the word Select means). That needs to change, as long as AMD rules the performance and Intel does not.

Joe
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