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To: Gary Ng who wrote (106685)	8/2/2000 2:09:39 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Gary, Apparently Intel has only been sampling 1.1GHz parts for a couple of weeks. They require a last minute microcode hack. How much testing could anyone have done on it? I expect to see a recall in the next few weeks. I hope Intel doesn't hope to get any good publicity out of this like the FDIV bug, because that kind of opportunity only works once. Scumbria

To: Gary Ng who wrote (106685)	8/2/2000 2:31:48 AM
From: Eric K.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Gary Ng-- Re: By the same token, IBM and Dell is in the business of selling computers, the chances that they would accept a product and incorporate into their system without going through some thorough testing is even closer to zero. How many hundreds of millions of dollars did the i820 motherboard recall cost? There was the pentium division thing, and the original day-before-release delay of the 820 last year. Hint: the answers to the first and second are $300M and ~$400M. The opportunity cost of the third is incalculable. If I were Engel, I would call call you a moron or ask if you were beating your wife. -Eric