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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (81544)	11/30/1999 1:31:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572669

DELL HALTING CUMINE SHIPMENTS!! -- anonymous story on JC's. jc-news.com 99/11/30, 1:05pm - Oh, dear. This sounds kind of serious. The fellow sending me this is, of course, anonymous (anonymousity seems very popular these days, methinks), but I am going to quote verbatim (since the quote was notched by the emailer, anyway. This is from a company called Dell, I'm sure a couple of you have heard of it. ;) "We are in the process of executing a Stop Ship for Coppermine Processors in OptiPlex worldwide ... There is very little info on this yet except that failure mode appears between power-up, power-down cycles as an intermittent lock-up. Intel began screening all CuMine inventory on Monday (11/22), but we do not have an indication yet of what marking and/or lot codes identify 'screened' lots. Futhermore, some initial testing within Dell suggests the screen described by Intel would not 100% catch failures..." I do not have absolute verification of the source's identity, and it would kind of be a breach of journalistic protocol and stuff to try to hunt them out. You'll have to make the call yourself on this one, though I have to say my gut say "uh-oh" when confronted with this possibly catastrophic news. I should note that other tests of the Coppermine have not exhibited the same problem reported here. If the story is true, it may well manifest itself with or be caused by the type of motherboards or RIMMs that Dell is using. So it might not be a Coppermine-specific problem. End Quote Petz

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (81544)	11/30/1999 4:34:00 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572669

RE <<<I think you've been reading messages from an imposter Process Boy, because the messages I've seen from him hardly refer to Coppermine as a "messiah." He has said time and time again that Coppermine will remain "competitive" with Athlon, at least in clock speeds. He never said that Coppermine will slay Athlon.>>> Tenchusatsu, a phantom PB; no, it couldn't unless its you. I agree that he never inferred that the cumine would take on godlike qualities; however there was definite implication that the Athlon was in serious trouble and that AMD's days were numbered. The hinting of impending doom was done almost every day by all the intc longs including PB to the point where I checked with an outside source to see how vulnerable the Athlon really was. Now you can say all is fair in love and war and I have to agree. So that is why PB is being pushed real hard right now. And while he is in a delicate position, no one told him to post on this thread and no one told him to get so emotionally involved that he felt the need to intimidate the opposition. ted