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To: Maxwell who wrote (30689)	4/1/1998 12:34:00 AM
From: Time Traveler	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572507

Maxwell, "where are all these "phatom 0.25um K6" come from." From Tier 1 surplus due to lack of demand. Naturally, mom-and-pops pick them up dirt-cheap in which it is going to hurt AMD's bottom line this quarter. John.

To: Maxwell who wrote (30689)	4/1/1998 12:43:00 AM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 1572507

<AMD must have some "underground secret fabs" producing them.> All these parts are fake. I know all their secrets. These dealers just buy old classic Pentiums-100 from Asia's excess inventory, for $3 each. Then they cut off tops of aluminium cans (Norway sardines in mustard sauce are the best), glue them on the top of pentiums to make them look like K6, and mark as K6-266. The only problem is that the parts won't run at 2.2V. So the dealers suggest user to overclock parts immediately using 3.52V, and supply chips with detailed instruction how to do this (at no extra charge). The instruction says that to achieve a real performance, user need to set some internal features up by running a proprietary software from a floppy. In fact, this small program (written by russian programmers) just re-programs the PC's real time clock so the PC time ticks slower, and all benchmark scores looks much higher than for P-II-450. AMD will sink deep when these secrets will hit the Street. Ali (4/1/98)