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To: Paul Engel who wrote (73854)	10/4/1999 4:49:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572630

Paul, AMD can stockpile their 700 CPUs or they can sell them as 650s in the interim if they have confidence that they can roll out volume at 700+. It now looks that way and we may have a situation where all the Athlons run at 600-700 Mhz or more and there are no 500, and 550 MHZ units in the bin splits forcing them to sell faster ones marked as slower ones as Intel has done for years now.This is routine in the chip industry, you do not get bin splits from 700 down to 2 hertz, once you get consistency and repeatability you optimize towards the best speed/yield/profit curve and this often yield few slow CPUs as well as few extra fast CPUs. In the optimal and unnaproachable unreal world you could dial in 550 MHZ and get 100% 550 MHZ. Of course this ideal can only be approached, but from what I see and read AMD has been able to get high yields and consistent products slanted towards the high speeds(as it should be). AMD may well send the 550 MHZ units to chip gulag(Register term for end of life for a chip), or they may keep them around as sharp sticks to poke Intel in the eye with at the low end. This is what you call a sea change in the industry and Intel has taken to suckling on the rearmost teat...and they had better get used to it. Bill