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To: Tony Viola who wrote (93919)	12/13/1999 5:42:00 PM
From: Jeff Fox	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Tony, re:"articles from Intel engineers a couple of years ago in which they were talking about all the right stuff" Yes you did. The way this goes generally is that the developers know their stuff, but the "product engineers" are died-in-the-wool digital dudes that don't always follow directions - especially the folks overseas and working for a sub contractor or small shop mobo manufacturer. Often they think they have a better idea, or have a bead on cheaper material or equipment that deviates from the development recipe. They go for it and then wonder why it doesn't work right. Then Intel has to air-ship the actual experts to them to straighten things out. It is often human nature for independents to have to stare the experts in the eye in order for whatever concept it is to finally sink in. Seems this happens over and over with each new technology stretch... You might notice that Intel seems to have more such issues with mobo's and packaging compared to silicon evolution. These things are done overseas with sub contractors and independent suppliers where Intel uses only in house wafer fabs. Process development is done "local" and then pushed into production with Craig Barrett's "copy exactly" policy. This strategy has had blowout success. Jeff