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AMD starts to EOL its chips

But "strategic customers" get preference
Thu Oct 19 2006, 15:47
CHIP FIRM AMD IS phasing out a heap of its processors as it prepares to introduce new CPUs and move to a 65 nanometre process.

But in recent roadmaps seen by the INQ, the firm distinguishes between "strategic customers" and "standard" customers. It, perhaps wisely, doesn't specify what type you are.

Let's call "strategic" customers "platinum" and you "standard customers" tin, because if you're tin it's already too late to buy quite a few of the 939 socket chips.

Suffice it to say if you're a "tin customer", the cut off date for a lot of the processors will be a whole six months before the "platinum customers" last time ship. µ

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