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To: Charles R who wrote (72675)	9/21/1999 12:07:00 PM
From: kash johal	Respond to of 1574883

Chuck, Re:"As you know lots of high-tech companies do a good chunk of their shipments in the last week. And the last batch of the wafers and packaged chips should be hitting their docks from their suppliers around this time. Shouldn't be a huge amount (as a % of total quarter) but could be sufficient in some cases to miss the quarter (or at least that could be a good excuse!)." You are right its a great excuse. But any parts for year end ship would be in assembly/FT already. These machines are pretty robust as u know. I can see some ASIC issues where u have sole sourced product where a specific customer gets hurt. As far as box makers, they would already have parts in-house for end of Q builds. If this had occured say 3 weeks ago the excuse may have worked better. I bet somebody will still use it. Sure hope not AMD. regards, Kash