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To: Yousef who wrote (26441)	12/4/1997 11:04:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (2) of 1573908

Yousef, For all those who ask "what's the big deal?" about AMD boosting the VCC up to 3.3v, I present the following: Why did AMD wait so long to bump up the VCC, if that was all it took to get better yield at 233mhz? Surely they knew the part would run faster if the vcc was higher, yet they waited all this time to bump it up. Why? Characterization would have shown this early on in the devices development stages. To anyone in the industry the answer is obvious. AMD knew all along that bumping up the vcc would have led to serious reliability problems. Their QRE department must have fought tooth and nail against selling a part at this voltage and clearly it worked up until recently. It would take an extremely desperate situation to allow shipping a high vcc part, otherwise they would have been doing it from day 1. No other conclusion fits the facts. IMPO EP

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