The concept of "binning" has to do with the manufacturing process for chips. They're such complicated devices that even if they do everything correctly, in a g

The concept of "binning" has to do with the manufacturing process for chips. They're such complicated devices that even if they do everything correctly, in a given batch of chips, one may do it at a slightly slower rate or only stay stable at a slower clock speed. The chip manufacturer takes this into account and separates out the chips according to performance, with a low-high scale, which makes up the "family" of processors that they offer. However - there is a certain amount of business process involved in the sorting as well. Chips with higher performance rating marked for a "high end" bin will result in a larger sale / dollar amount for that chip ... but it will also, in the end, increase the availability of that "high end" chip. This availability may not be entirely used by the market - and may result in a surplus that will actually drive the value of the chip down in the end. In addition, the middle range (commodity) chips will be in higher demand anyways so you'll want to have an abundant supply of them in general. I think the parent comment was suggesting that Intel is more interested in keeping chip supplies for higher end processors low (thus scarce, thus valuable on the open market) and is willing to "underbin" a chip to help control those prices - whereas AMD is apparently strictly binning them based on pass/fail/rating/performance. The end result is that you're more likely able to overclock a commodity Intel chip and have it stay stable because in reality it's likely "overqualified" for the processor label within the family it's sold under.