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To: Profits who wrote (27297)	12/29/1997 5:41:00 PM
From: Buckwheat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574212

Profits,,, has Intel been sponsoring or promoting some kind of comic relief on the AMD thread the past few days? Maybe I need to check in at the Clubhouse to see if there are any notices posted. Can't figure out what the cause might be. They're always bragging about how much cash they have. Maybe they're raising money in anticipation of becoming cacheless sometime 1H 98. :-)) Buckwheat

To: Profits who wrote (27297)	12/29/1997 5:53:00 PM
From: StockMan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574212

Big Losses, Re -- You must be an idiot to post such a ridiculous statement Careful about your language. Since you have absolutely no clue about the production process, the cost of production, and the prices on the chips, and have shown a distinct characteristics of a fool, I won't bother to explain it to you, since its a waste of effort. Stockman

To: Profits who wrote (27297)	12/29/1997 9:34:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1574212

<You must be an idiot to post such a ridiculous statement. Yeah, AMD is going to produce the parts and just throw them away. > I think Stockman means that AMD won't bother to package them because they won't sell for much more than the packaging cost. Is this true? I tend to think the problem is more complex. AMD has to spend the money to package them because they can't tell the difference for sure between a 166, 200 & 233 mhz K6 on the wafer. If it's true that AMD can't sell the slow ones, then they are blowing a lot of money packaging them just to screen out the few fast ones they can sell. I would think they could do a fire sale and dump the slower ones at a low price. It's that or throw them in the garbage. EP EP