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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (80676)	11/22/1999 12:43:00 AM
From: Cirruslvr	Respond to of 1578041

Jim - RE: "I think some OEMs are a little tired of the "just wait 'till next year" line of crap Intel has been feeding them!" Shouldn't they be used to it by now? MerDUD and Profusion!

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (80676)	11/22/1999 11:04:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578041

Big PC vendors furious over Intel Coppermine yields theregister.co.uk Or lack thereof. One executive at a major PC manufacturer, who asked for conditions of strict anonymity, told The Register:"Everything I see and hear regarding Intel and Coppermine is that there are very serious yield problems on virtually all Coppermine processors. So much so that, on one occasion recently, our engineering facility got their first touch of a new chip four days before Intel announced it, not the usual three to four months." He said: "The main reason for breaching normal etiquette is that Intel is trying to put a "blame the OEM" (original equipment manufacturer) spin on most problems." He said that an Intel spokesperson quoted in InfoWorld recently said that mobile Coppermine chips had been delayed for one month at the specific request of OEMs. "He failed to point out that, as we hadn't seen the chips, no-one was in a position to test designs, let alone ship product," he said. The problem was not just confined to his company, he added. "Talking to my ex-colleagues spread around tier one vendors, this is true of all of them," he claimed. Of course, this is The Register, which also had this bizarre leak about Willamette hitting the streets any day now, a couple weeks ago. Still, Best Buy ads were full of Athlons this weekend, with Intel mostly relegated to the notebook pages. Cheers, Dan.