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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (89640)	1/26/2000 1:15:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572153

Cirruslvr, re:<Do you happen to remember the advantage of the flip chip? Lower cost?> Yes, I believe they can use a plastic package with flip chip, but standard socket 370 requires a ceramic package. Perhaps there's be a thermal problem with the 550 FCPGA's. This is the only reasonable explanation for 500 FCPGA being OK, but 550 NOT OK. I wonder how many PC's have been sold with the bad parts, seeing as these parts are already penetrated into the SD shop market as represented by thechipmerchant.com. Petz