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To: Ali Chen who wrote (25710)	11/9/1997 11:43:00 AM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (2) of 1579715

Ali- Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has disclosed on its Web site (www.amd.com/K6/k6docs/revgd.html) a number of bugs in its K6 processor that could cause unpredictable system behavior or math errors under rare conditions. Several of the bugs have no immediate software fixes available and will be corrected in future manufacturing revisions. In one case involving the floating-point unit, the company has identified six source and destination operand patterns that erroneously result in a zero when performing multiply operations. How about demanding a recall for this bug infested chip? EP

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