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To: kash johal who wrote (51086)	2/26/1999 5:20:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) of 1574854

Re: "I agree with you that at 2.2V their yields at 400Mhz and greater may have been sub 50% even with the revised mask fix. Changing the spec to 2.4V will almost certainly increase that dramatically to as much as 80% depending upon the bell curve. This is VERY smart of AMD as Mhz sells (tm Jim mcminnis). I am sure that they ran plenty of life test runs to prove reliabilty for excess of 30 years as is standard in the industry. And the OEMS I am sure are privy to that QUAL data)." I smell a rat. If there is no reliability issue with elevated Vcc, then why did AMD wait until now to jack it up? The could have done this before if there is no reliability problem. Don't you find it rather coincidential that just when AMD goes back into red ink, just when their competition comes out with a newer faster product, just when AMD finds themselves once again a couple of speed bins behind, they suddenly discover they can jack up the Vcc and suddenly all their yield problems are solved!!! Why now when this process has been running for months? Answer... desperation. Pure and simply. EP

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