Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 14:38:28 -0400 From: "~/.signature" <hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu> To: "Charles Burns" <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: the AMD factor in FreeBSD Message-ID: <200104221838.f3MIcSn18714@fac13.ds.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 20 Apr 2001 00:10:14 PDT." <F936u1Wy9eabpAprqFp000049ce@hotmail.com>
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charles complained, > The Celeron 2 somewhat irritates me because it shows Intel's gross profit > margins. It is the exact same core as the P3, so the P3 can clearly be sold > for much cheaper. Good thing for AMD to shave their margins down. > At least AMD is decent enough to make the Duron a separate core. Sort of, but not really. Over all the processors they sell, they need to cover their average cost, which includs the fixed & sunk costs of development, plus the marginal cost of production. This scheme lets them share the huge sunk cost between the PIII and the celery, actually lowering the average cost for each. They just couldn't cover those costs if they sold PIII at vegetable prices . . . hawk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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