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To: TGPTNDR who wrote (160266)2/26/2002 3:47:40 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
"What do you figure they were doing with the engineering samples if they weren't sampling them?"

In this case, validating the process. Who would they have sampled SRAMs and misc. logic circuits to? Now the term "engineering samples" are often used to mean those samples of pre-release chips for initial evaluation. But they often have "unusual" characteristics, like the Cotulla chips that only lasted a few hours before they fried, but since AMD doesn't have any customers for SRAMs I doubt if they left AMD.

So the current chips would be "engineering samples", but, as I stated, I doubt if anyone outside of the company will be able to actually do anything other than watch some canned demos.
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