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

To: kash johal who wrote (68325)	8/10/1999 5:30:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578748

RE:"Imagine u are head of compaq and put 1/2 a million MB's in WIP for Christmas. And u only get 200K AThlons-- u might make CPQ miss the quarter really babdly. As u would have missed selling 300K systems. To scramble u might have to pay open market pricing for PIII's and MB's."... Suppose you are a second tier boxmaker or looking to make a name for yourself. You have been getting you butt kicked by the likes of DELL, Gateway, other more established names. Hard to crack their markets, name. You contract with a motherboard maker and with AMD for the Athlon, some now and a guarantee later and go for it. Otherwise, you go no where. Perhaps the next E-machines emerges, only at the high end. Jim