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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (161001)	3/4/2002 12:17:26 PM
From: andreas_wonisch	Respond to of 186894

Wanna_bmw, Re: Why else would OEMs sell their processors, except for inventory glut, or if they were desperate? To make money? That's a profitable side-income for the OEMs, especially for AMD processors. Just buy some CPU lots and dump them with a margin of a few percents to the grey market. E.g. every 3rd Athlon XP 1900+ is from the grey market and every 10th Pentium 4 2 GHz (according to Pricewatch data). It's just that Intel discourages gray market dumping more (or has more influence than AMD), so OEMs are more reluctant with Intel processors. Andreas