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To: tejek who wrote (113811)	6/1/2000 10:07:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573433

Re: "The 1.5 is worth its weight in gold right now..." Actually Ted, if such a thing did exist it would be worth considerably more than it's weight in gold.... EP

To: tejek who wrote (113811)	6/1/2000 10:11:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573433

ted, If a half a million a week are coming off the line at 1.5 gig you will change your tune. The line cranks, the parts flow, and you cannot turn them off(easily) or turn down the speeds, so you hawk them where you can and make some more. Tha means mark them where they will sell. The savvy ones will indeed buy slower parts and sell them sa faster ones. There is also a stockpile that could be grown for use in the fall when hopefully all aspects of chip sets, mobos etc are all fully on stream in volume. Bill

To: tejek who wrote (113811)	6/1/2000 11:57:00 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573433

The 1.5 is worth its weight in gold right now...why down bin it? My post was assuming that AMD can produce 1.5 ghz chips (unlikely in my opinion) and that they could sell some of them at some outrageously high price but could not sell all of them. I don't think this will happen because I believe they can not produce 1.5ghz Athlons and because if they can there would be very few and AMD should be able to sell them all. However if You could only sell 90% of the 1.5s at say $2k, it would be better to sell the other 10% as 1.2 for say $900 then to put them on the shelf, or reduce the price for 1.5s to $1500. In any case this is all highly theoretical. I don't think AMD has the 1.5s and if they do they can probably figure a better way to maximize profits on them then I can (and even I was somehow better at this then they are they wouldn't listen to me anyway :) Tim