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To: Dave who wrote (28143)	1/27/1998 2:38:00 PM
From: Profits	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575765

Dave, It is true that IBM receives dice and they package the processors themselves. Since they were the inventors of the C4 Flip Chip, and as it was pointed out on some earlier posts to this thread, packaging and testing is a very serial intensive procedure. By shipping dice to IBM instead of packaged product, this helps to alleviate one of the bottlenecks in production. And IBM gets all the processors they want. AMD licensed the C4 Flip Chip technology from IBM for the K6 processor. So essentially you have both AMD and IBM building packaged K6 processors. Looks like a pretty sound strategy to me. Profits