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To: Petz who wrote (38047)	5/2/2001 3:40:11 AM
From: peter_luc	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 275872

Big Pentium 4 1.7GHz shortages! Petz, "I think another reason for higher prices on 1.33 Athlons is that AMD discovered that 1.7 volumes are lower than they expected." Bingo! This is Mike Magee's article on this subject: 213.219.40.69 "1.7GHz Intel Pentium 4s suffer shortages Special to the Inquirer Only a week after launch By Mike Magee, 1 May 2001 08.23 BST DEALERS TRYING TO BUY the new 1.7GHz Pentium 4 microprocessors have been told they will have to wait at least four weeks for supplies in any quantity. Intel introduced the chip at a price of $352 only 10 days ago, to a fanfare of price cutting trumpeting all over the newspapers and Web. There are also shortages of the 1.3GHz, 1.4GHz, 1.5GHz Pentium 4s at the largest distributors too, we understand, with only limited quantities of the products in stock and with some shortages . The Pentium 4 1.7GHz bundled with no RDRAM RIMMs (which is what most dealers want), does not even have an estimated time of arrival at one of the US' biggest distributors. Boxed 1.7GHz processors bundled with RDRAM are slated to arrive in limited quantities at the end of May. Said a dealer: "There are no P4s faster than 1.4GHz in the system to be bought. The parts that we need the most are ETA'd a month or more away."µ More on this story later" Hmmm, maybe AMD cut their prices too soon. On the other hand, AMD has a good chance now to further increase market share this quarter. (So has Dell, when they get all the P4s 1.7 GHz in the world...) Peter