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

To: Process Boy who wrote (71012)	9/4/1999 3:35:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575391

<Nobody sandbags already made CPU's.> The argument here is a notion that since Intel's CPUs were becoming too fast for the market to bear, they had to underclock their CPUs and put a multiplier lock on them to prevent overclocking. The overclockability of the Celeron 300A upon its release is their main piece of evidence. Now people think that it's AMD's turn to do the same, given that the third-party web sites like Herr Uberclockermeister are running their Athlons at 750 MHz. The argument, however, falls apart when you consider a statement I've repeated over and over again, "It's the volumes, stupid!" There's no way AMD can afford to sandbag the numbers when their volumes are so low and demand is so high. Given that they can't produce more than 200K or 300K Athlons this quarter, I'm sure that AMD will find more than that many people who are willing to buy the fastest speed possible, even if it costs hundreds of dollars more. The existence of the 550 and 600 speed grades, plus the non-availability of 650, tells me that AMD isn't yet able to reach those high speeds consistently. To tell you the truth, though, I don't know why people are finding the Athlon so overclockable. If AMD is truly sandbagging, then they are making a mistake. Tenchusatsu