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To: Dan3 who wrote (108062)	8/23/2000 9:46:02 AM
From: semiconeng	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 186894

Xeons faster than 700MHZ (I mean real Xeons, not relabled P3s) were cancelled at the last minute recently. That could have been due to all the 700 plus wafer starts resulting in failure Excuse me Dan, but as I'm sure you well know, intel cancelled the Xeon 800, because their customers asked them to, not because of any "failure". Nice spreading of FUD though..... news.cnet.com SemiconEng

To: Dan3 who wrote (108062)	8/23/2000 9:50:22 AM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: "Don't be so sure[that Xeon isn't suffering from yield problems], Intel is presently shooting for faster speeds from the Xeons instead of the previous 500MHZ or so. Remember what happened when AMD used slightly more aggressive feature sizes to target its large cache K6's at 500MHZ instead of 400MHZ? Yields collapsed. The same thing could have happened here" Nonsense Dan. It's the same core as CuMines so it must be on the same process as CuMines. 700MHz doesn't sound very aggressive to me and Intel has a long history of successfully manufacturing very large die for customers like HP. With the kind of volumes they are now producing of CuMines and their copy exactly methodology, it's clear they don't have a systemic defect problem. EP