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To: mishedlo who wrote (55228)	9/26/2000 1:43:54 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Hi mishedlo; Down binning means you mark a part with a lower specification than it tested out at. In a non monopoly situation this amounts to giving money away, but in single supplier situations (like Samsung and RIMMs for the PC market), it is frequently done. With AMD, for instance, they sold 800MHz Athlons as 600MHz, (at the 600MHz price). You could tell this by taking off the cover, and looking at the markings of the chip inside. If instead you marked all your parts as 800MHz, the effect on the supply / demand curve was that you ended up selling all your parts at what should have been the 600MHz price. -- Carl