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To: Dale J. who wrote (33898)	7/3/1998 7:26:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573994

Dale, The Bausch and Lomb was quite true, search for it. In simple terms they are selling the same thing at two different prices to two client groups. Group 1 buys a 300 Mhz CPU, pays and is happy Group 2 buys a 266 Mhz CPU, pays and is happy. Group one pays 35% more than group 2. Group one finds out that the two CPUs are the exact same, just marked as 266 or 300. They could have bought the 266 and saved the 35% and run it at 300 Mhz had they known. Note this refers to the exact same die, made on same line at same time tested to same specs, but marked differently. Intel had excess stock of unsold 300 and there was low end demand and their line was tuned to make high speed parts and did so. They would have to make special batches of slow parts to fill slow orders as their normal bin mix made too few high speed parts, they did not do this as the real task is faster better. The question is: Have the people who paid for the 300 been ripped? Yes as they could have been charged 35% less.(and some OEMs have bought 266 and sold as 300, not illegal after you find out they were 300s downmarked to 266) I think Intel's goose is cooked as the B&L reference is telling. Bill