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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Joseph S. Lione who wrote (56645)	4/28/1999 9:32:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 1571898

Joe, I expect in some cases they could have charged a premium, esp to gamers when the 3D instructions were out and the retailers charged a premium for the chip. In most cases when two or more sellers are viewed as selling the same products, like gasoline, there exists little difference between them. They are selling commodities. In CPUs it is the same and same as with gasoline some people try to differentiate their products by marketing techniques in order to charge more for them. CPUs are close to being commodities in their respective speed groups. The differences between AMD and Intel for similar speed/cache/bus speed are minimal. I feel AMD should lessen the use of this "25% less campaign" and simply sell on merit as whatever price it can negotiate. Bear in mind that some inducement is needed to make people switch when similar sockets are used. With slot 1, the CPUs could cost more as the mother board premium gave AMD a price advantage. Bill