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To: nihil who wrote (43256)	12/12/1998 12:16:00 PM
From: kash johal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573092

Nihil, >Re: I hope even the little guys don't condition future sales on past >sales. Under the Clayton Act, even a non-monopolist cannot engage in >tie-in interstate sales of goods over they which they have a >significant degree of control if a significant amount of commerce is >involved. See your congressman. Nihil, in a perfect world everybody would pay the same price for an article, at least at the wholesale level. Now I suspect you are old enough to realize that there are lots of ways of setting prices and volumes purchased etc make a big difference. If you think for one minute that when the K7 comes out and IF it is competitive as we believe that some-one like a DELL or Gateway is going to be allocated volumes if this is the only chip they want from AMD. Intel for example does package deals. You get enough PII 450's if you buy some slow selling POS Celery or 740 Graphics chips or whatever. Then the OEMS go out and dump unsold parts on the grey market. This practise is perfectly legal and goes on all the time in the semiconductor industry frankly. If you tried to purchase memory chips during the memory shortgaes from a few years ago you would understand completely. Regards, Kash unwanted CPU's on the grey market.