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To: grok who wrote (72618)	9/21/1999 12:22:00 AM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573433

KZ, <The interesting question is: after they've done all that, does it work in mass production with a low failure rate? What do you think, Ali?> First, almost anything can be done given unlimited budget and time. Especially in small quantity and with the same vendor of materials. Intel worked on the reference design for 2 years - I guess 1997 and 1998 - connecting those 18 data lines to their controller. In mass production the product life time is 6 months, thanks to Intel "innovation" again. Me thinks that the third party designs, even when "copied exactly" to the best of their knowledge, just do not work at all, so the term "failure rate" is not applicable. I believe there must be tremendous difficulties with various RIMM configurations, "compatibility" with variety of RIMM vendors, etc. IMHO.