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DELL 127.43-1.4%Dec 29 3:59 PM EST
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To: TigerPaw who wrote (175230)10/16/2005 1:43:28 PM
From: Ali Chen  Read Replies (1) of 176387
 
"Dell validates the motherboard design, but I don't think they do much in the way of silicon validation."

I think your perception of the whole process is too simplified. "The way of silicon validation" usually happens on over-designed over-bloated boards, where chips are placed into rather idealistic conditions. Dell purpose is to minimise cost, so they use lighter, production-worthy boards, with reduced level of signal integrity, power bypass, different grounding conditions, and subject to wider component variability and quality. Typically this kind of testing exposes silicon weaknesses that escaped from regular silicon validation. This is the toughest part of design cycle. Remember the story with i820, and the whole Rambus ordeal - the unsolvable problems were found in the field, not at Intel validation labs.

- Ali
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