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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (113814)6/1/2000 10:13:00 PM
From: Elmer  Read Replies (1) of 1573824
 
Re: "It is quite possible that AMD does indeed mark fast parts as slower parts and fill that sales niche. What would you have them do? refuse the sale? Deliberately make slow parts by tweaking the process? This has been going on for years in assorted chip businesses and simply reflects the fact that a process might produce a good yield of faster parts than the market needs"

Well Bill, I knew if I waited long enough you'd finally make a technically sound post. My faith has been restored. Don't forget to add though that the customer has no way of knowing which of the slower parts are really slow parts and which ones are down binned. If AMD had zero binsplit to the lower speed they'd simply dump that speedgrade.

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