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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (155897)	1/17/2002 12:44:50 AM
From: whortso	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

"AMD definitely sold 7.8M units" This is rather odd don't you think? I mean demand was there and AMD should have been able to sell all they could make yet the actual total number of processors is inexplicably low. Why? AMD's fabs should have been able to produce more processors than that without breaking a sweat. What gives? Whort

To: wanna_bmw who wrote (155897)	1/17/2002 12:45:40 AM
From: Gary Kao	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

re: AMD rounding up and other oddities. Mathematically to round up 0.4 to "1.0" is dishonest. Perhaps related to a pervasive disregard for accuracy by AMD, for the life of me I can't find detailed financial tables relating to 4th Q 2001 results for AMD...I've looked everywhere, including AMD's website. I had wanted to verify that cash balance is minimally down AS WELL AS debt, as claimed in their CC. Mathematically, this too seems impossible! How can you have losses resulting in decreased cash reserves, yet still be able to reduce debt?!! Just doesn't add up. Gary