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To: h0db who wrote (88386)	9/20/2002 11:20:46 PM
From: Harvey Allen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

h0db- I have two theories about the recent 1600+ parts: 1) In February AMD decided to mark most everything 1600+ so as not to be caught with an inventory on unsellable high end parts. or 2) There was a production run of .18 XP 2200's and a decision was made not to extend the line to that speed so all were marked and sold as XP 1600+. There is a lot of precedent for #2. A few years ago the "Blue Meanie" T-Bird 750 ran as 1GHz and was most likely a test run of the 1.0GHz part at Dresden. More recently, the AHYJAR 1.0GHz Thunderbird ran at 1.6GHz+ and was most likely a dry run of a 1.466GHz T-Bird that was never offered. AMD is a small company and thus can't afford to throw chips in the dumpster so they sell them undermarked and the buyers have no complaint. Harvey