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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Buckwheat who wrote (27309)12/30/1997 1:45:00 AM
From: Elmer  Read Replies (1) of 1574369
 
Buckwheat, I will try to make this simple so you can understand it, AMD sorts a wafer and identifies good die, but they don't know for sure if these die are 233, 200 or 166mhz die because they can't tell for sure at wafer sort. They must package them and test them again to distinguish the fast ones from the slow ones. That means all must incure the expense of packaging. If AMD can find a market for the slow ones then fine, they can sell them. If not then AMD must eat the cost of packaging the slow ones just to find out which ones are the fast ones. My point is that surely AMD can find a buyer for the slow ones if they simply drop the price low enough. The money is already spent packaging them so anything they can get is extra revenue. This is not so difficult a concept to grasp and I think you will find that we are not on opposite sides on this one. Don't spend a lot of time overanalysing this one.

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