Replies to post #4610 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[j3pflynn]

wbmw, I imagine they're offering the spread their customers want. With sales depressed, I'd say they'll take whatever sales they can get, so if it's a matter of selling $40 CPUs to a customer or not selling to the customer at all when you have capacity unsold...
There isn't a lot of call for the high end right now, without some sea change event to drive it. Perhaps like Doom3 and Opteron/Athlon64?
Paul

[Not a Short]

"why would AMD downclock their entire CPU line?"

Demand is lower than production capacity and it doesn't hurt your rep to delever a reliable product with headroom. Though, that doesn't apply to the entire cpu line. That is only true for the part below the sweet spot.

[yourbankruptcy]

wbmw, not shifted, but rather expanded. The XP 2600 is probably manufactured as 2600, but the 1700 is the same 2600, but downbinned. Why? Because the market wants from AMD a lot of $50 chips and only handful of $150 chips. The top grades are cherry-picked, that's clear. The 1700 will work as 2600 or 2400 on regular voltage, but to run it as 2800 you need to raise voltage, i.e. 1700 is not the same chip as 2800.

I think all I'm saing is 100% primitive, but it's evening and my brain is tired. :)))