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To: tejek who wrote (74385)10/6/1999 10:25:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis  Respond to of 1573844
 
RE:"That is correct.....but what happen to the 150,000 surplus chips?
Stockpiled?"...

Probably waiting for motherboards...

Jim

PS...AMD typically has between 500k and 1000k chips in inventory at the end of each quarter...except last quarter when they had 2.3M...



To: tejek who wrote (74385)10/7/1999 8:03:00 AM
From: ajbrenner  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1573844
 
Re:but what happen to the 150,000 surplus chips?

tejek,

Jerry implied that more chips could have been sold but sales were constrained buy issues with MB's, chips & etc. He wouldn't put a number on it however. Maybe they could have sold 10k more, maybe 100k more he wouldn't say.

ajb