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To: jim kelley who wrote (111154)	5/16/2000 3:57:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) of 1578420

Jim, It all depends on the readyness of the chip set. they must make some proto mobos and if the chipset is good optimise the mobos to a production state. This can take a single week per cycle as there are premium "RUSH" mobo ptotorypers who will make you a dozen 4-6 layer boards in 3-4 days....costs thousands of dollars as each panel is hand done at all stages. If however there is a flaw in the chip set that is a much longer prorotype cycle, 14 weeks is one number I have heard for rush jobs....anyone know what a rush job takes in a foundry of the type most majors have as small scale protoype makers? A few of those could eat up more than 6 months. With others saying mobos in june at the same time as CPUs, well, one hopes they are fully and exhaustively checked. Modern simulation systems are getting very good and may be able to close the loop on chipset testing to the point where they are good, forst time. Of course, did Intel have those tools? or are the problems so esoteric that the tools lacked the resolution to simulate to the point of error detection in the hub? Bill

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