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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (161002)	3/4/2002 12:26:17 PM
From: andreas_wonisch	Respond to of 186894

Wanna_bmw, Re: No, they must sell them for less than they paid for them, or else they wouldn't get a buyer. If you were right the OEMs would have a continuing inventory glut of AMD processors since between 1/10 and 1/2 of all AMD processors on Pricewatch are from the gray channel. For processors that have been already phased out (e.g. AMD's Thunderbird line) the gray market parts make up to 100% of all CPUs on Pricewatch. OEMs just buy them from AMD and sell them to the gray market to make a few easy bucks. As said, for Intel the numbers are lower, normally in the ball park of 1/10 (not counting the models that have been phased out). Andreas