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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (61150)	6/9/1999 5:21:00 PM
From: Elmer	Respond to of 1573834

Re: "First of all, AMD doesn't "overproduce." They make as many as they can." I've been wondering about this and I don't understand why AMD would bother to package the die if they can't sell them. One possible explanation is AMD can't differentiate between speed bins unless they are packaged and tested at high temp. Nobody else can either so it's probable that AMD has a real bin-split problem and they have to package and test ~2-3 parts to get one fast enough to find a buyer. That would explain the much higher cost for AMD products compared to Intel's. EP