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To: Elmer who wrote (109199)	5/3/2000 8:38:00 AM
From: Bert Herman	Respond to of 1576769

Elmer, I know for sure it's a common practice in semiconductor distribution, that inventory lays in the warehouse of the very large distributors. Invoice and sale is only done after distributor sels it to the customer. This systems has certain advantages over the traditional system. That way you can easily react to price fluctuations, also distributors don't have to invest a lot of cash so your products are readily available, etc... I know 100% sure AMD is using this system for Flash and other products with a few, very large distributors and I'm almost certain they will use this system also for MPU. In that way, 250k inventory is not that much. Bert