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To: Elmer who wrote (74050)	10/5/1999 5:50:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 1585460

Elmer - Re: "If it's in production, why is it only sampling? Why not shipping?" Production, Sampling, Shipping - these all mean the same thing in AMDSpeak. Paul

To: Elmer who wrote (74050)	10/5/1999 6:28:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 1585460

Fudd, <If it's in production, why is it only sampling? Why not shipping?> You forgot to ask "where are profits", right?

To: Elmer who wrote (74050)	10/5/1999 9:02:00 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1585460

Re: If it's in production, why is it only sampling? Why not shipping? From postings by others who are involved in production, it seems that production of MPUs is about a 50 day process. So they probably ran small quantities to verify the process, then began full production once the ouput from the sample runs had been qualified. So now they are distributing chips from the sample runs while they wait for the production parts to finish going through the 50 day fabrication process. Can anyone of with FAB knowledge confirm? Dan