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

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (71038)	9/4/1999 4:25:00 PM
From: Process Boy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575170

Ten - <"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.> Exactly. AMD has to generate cash to stay afloat. The notion that AMD is playing some game with clock speeds is ludicrous. They're shipping every thing they make at the highest speed grade they can generate. PB