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To: steve harris who wrote (108814)	8/28/2000 11:45:03 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Steve, let he who is without sin cast the first stone: Included with our Athlon 1.1GHz system was a note that said: *WARNING* RUNNING THE CPU WITHOUT ANY HEASINK WILL CAUSE THE CPU TO OVERHEAT AND TO STOP WORKING PERMANENTLY. RUNNING THE CPU WITH ANY HEATSINK OTHER THAN AN AMD RECOMMENDED HEATSINK MAY CAUSE THE CPU TO OVERHEAT AND MAY EVEN CAUSE THE CPU TO PERMANENTLY STOP WORKING. Please refer to the following web address for recommended heatsinks: www1.amd.com We haven't had any more AMD CPUs fry on us, but we did talk to a mail order house that said some disturbing things. They told us that they have had approximately a 10% return rate on AMD Athlon Thunderbird CPUs. That is a painfully high failure rate. They said that some distributors place bar codes on the underside of the Athlon Thunderbird CPUs and that these barcoded CPUs often come back with their barcodes burnt. Looks like Alphonse and Gaston around here lately. I know, we need a third party candidate. What happened to Cyrix or Rise? Tony

To: steve harris who wrote (108814)	8/29/2000 1:40:25 AM
From: semiconeng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

I Made A Couple Of Phone Calls Tonight...... Obviously I'm not happy with today's announcement, but based on the pronouncements of the AMD Fans, I thought that maybe someone had forgotten to tell me that intel had closed up shop. Surprisingly, (to some, no doubt), no such thing happened. The night shift was fully staffed, the Fab was cranking, and nobody has committed suicide. Sigh..., I guess I'll go to work tomorrow after all.... :-) SemiconEng Oh, and by the way. I just got notice that my stock purchase plan, just bought me a whole bunch more shares.... for $40.788/share. Sigh...... Life is rough.....