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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (81612)	12/1/1999 10:52:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572676

Jim, I wonder if this bug is a threshold bug that slipped out because they loosened a test spec to ship more parts? Tighten up that spec and they ship less but all that ship will work. That means it is possible to creat a bug test for that spec and release it for people to use. Of course you make it so they all fail and thusands run to get a refund and a broad based recall ensues, like in the classic pentium bug where Intel had to eat millions of parts as even people who would never have a problem used the test routines and became angry that they now had a bug. I bet that someone will dig this out and release it pretty soon. Cause quite a problem for Intel by expanding this problem to all buyers. Bill

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (81612)	12/1/1999 12:42:00 PM
From: Charles R	Respond to of 1572676

<I think apologies (from certain Intel faithful) are going to be in order for those of us that said all along that said "something is wrong at Intel, very wrong" and for those who suggested something was wrong with the Floppermine yields and/or bins, don't you think? > I guess that would include me. I said couple of times that the shortage has to do with the late ramp on CuMine and producing only 3Mu CuMines or so. I guess I was being a little too generous about Intel's execution. Well, I guess I gotto grovel on tht one.