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Hello, All! ===================== >Intel has a deficit again - Andy @ 00:02 >Information has appeared about Intel's production problems >FC-PGA Pentium III 550 - some error at the packaging stage >chips in the case. According to the company's customers, Intel >notified them that there was a delay of about a month - >until the end of February. With 500 MHz FC-PGA problems like >it is reported, no - they should be in mass quantities >appear at the end of January, that is, literally just about now. >By the way, this information is indirectly confirmed completely >from other sources, already from Taiwan, from manufacturers >motherboards. Impending seriousness reported >440BX/ZX and Coppermine shortage due to some >production problems at the Intel factory." Price for 440BX >on the gray market again noticeably jumped up, like >the way it was in the summer. It seems that in these two messages >we are talking about the same factor. Well, what's the point then >in the willful reduction of prices by the manufacturer, if the market is full>is it raising them again? No, OEM, etc., direct >supply to major PC manufacturers - that's all clear >I'm talking about end users. ===================== We've completely gone downhill ;) This is what a semi-monopoly with advanced technologies means. Will go under the hammer soon ;) Best regards, Alexey