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To: Gary Ng who wrote (36290)	8/24/1998 9:01:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572643

Gary, International dumping is selling in a foreign country for less than you sell in your own country. Steel from korea is often named as dumped. korean steel would often show up 10,000 miles away for less than it was sold at home. They wanted US $. In the case of a domestic part like a CPU it would be hard to prove dumping as it would be hard to show cost regardless of the profit/loss position of the company. If for example an 8" wafer costs $1200 and it starts with 200 candidates and 100 are good the raw cost is $12 each. However you have the packaging, testing, fab cost share, overheads of all kinds. Since AMD is not making a profit a narrow definition would have whatever it sold as being dumped. However I am sure that the 8" scenario if applied to the K6-2 350 would be more or less true with the final packed part costing in the $30-40 area and selling for well over $100.(these are not to be considered true AMD figures) and so it would not be dumped when sold for $100+. At $25 perhaps yes, however I suspect Jerry would need to drink a bit more beer($) before engaging in a pi**ing contest with intel. Dumping may be occurring in some segments of the flash market as assordid people do assorted things to keep/grow share, and in other semi areas hit by the asian recession. Bill