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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Joe NYC who wrote (113830)6/2/2000 12:34:00 AM
From: Charles R  Read Replies (1) of 1573927
 
Joe,

<In my post I was starting from Chuck's assumption that AMD down-bins Athlons 2 to 4 speedgrades: >

This is not an assumption. Just check out the tons of posts on overclocker sites over the last year. I have not seen such downbinning since the early Celeron days. (at that time Celeron core was the same as PII and the downbinning was just a marketing deal to crush AMDs ASPs).

<I think if AMD is in fact downbinning parts as much as Chuck says, to me it is a complete breakdown in the decision-making.>

It appears to me that the choice was to sell downbinned parts or to collapse the pricing at the high end until the parts move. Which one would you pick in that circumstance and why?

<I don't see any problem in AMD offering only 800, 900 and 1 GHz parts. Why bother with 700 MHz etc. Let Intel supply those.>

See my comments above.

Chuck
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