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

To: Elmer who wrote (81618)	12/1/1999 11:41:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572772

Elmer, I hope you do not get putted off the green with your puts(out of the money)Still you will have cash in hand. Re:Test. I have yet to see an definitive description of this bug. Reminds me of the 'bug' that was not a bug that was in some AMD CPUs that was fixed with a slight timing loop change in windows. So this is not a true bug, but just something that makes it fail the power up self test and freeze at some point?So certain parts on the wafer have this problem and they can be eliminated by tighter testing. Sounds reasonable. Did anyone ever say what% had the problem? If 50% had it that is a huge hit to production since a new stepping may take 8 weeks or more to make it rhouth the queue to final chips. Does this mean they will be throwing away huge volumes since this news stepping will also need to be tested before selling and spreading to all the other fabs....just in case they fix 1 bug and add 2? Like Windoes NT has done a few times. Bill