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To: Mani1 who wrote (94574)	2/22/2000 11:59:00 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574061

Gateway had them first, they wanted the Athlon so Intel took them away and gave them to HP. HP wanted the Athlon too so Intel took it away and gave it to Dell. There is not many to go around after all. Mani, you don't have that quite right....HP, Dell, and GTW have signed a sharing agreement with Intel. That means they have to share the cumine chips with each other......one week the HP floor model has an 800 cumine inside, the next week that same chip goes into the GTW model and so on. The oem who sells their floor model first gets to keep the chip. Then Intel sends out another 800 cumine chip and the whole process starts all over again. In this way there isn't any waste and Intel keeps supply and demand in balance. In addition the oem that sells their model first has to pay Intel a surcharge....which helps to keep Intel's ASPs up. Good program, don't you think? ted