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To: Road Walker who wrote (106206)	7/26/2000 1:25:19 PM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 186894

John, Always is a strong word. Your statement hasn't always been true in the past, I think it probably won't be true at sometime in the future. The bin splits based on speed have a certain distribution - some kind of Bell curve. There are few chips on the extreme high end. Witness 1 GHz Pentium III. It is at the end of the distribution that it barely registers. If AMD did not exist, Intel would not even bother releasing it at this time, because the supply is so limited. The pricing reinforces all of this, since the prices of the highest speed grades go up exponentially, so that the demand is depressed. Can you name a period of time when the supply of highest end chips was not constrained? Joe