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To: andreas_wonisch who wrote (161000)	3/4/2002 12:06:13 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Andreas, Re: "I doubt that an OEM would sell processors below the buying price (except if there was an inventory glut or the OEM really desperate)" Why else would OEMs sell their processors, except for inventory glut, or if they were desperate? That's how the grey market gets CPUs that are below the Intel advertised cost. wbmw

To: andreas_wonisch who wrote (161000)	3/4/2002 12:28:41 PM
From: dale_laroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

>Since I doubt that an OEM would sell processors below the buying price (except if there was an inventory glut or the OEM really desperate) OEM probably pay a few percents below grey market prices for their processors.< If an OEM needs to order 10% more processors than they can use in order to qualify for the next discount level, they will often do so. These extra processors are then often dumped into the grey market at somewhat less than the OEM paid for them.