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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (53374)9/14/2000 12:57:23 PM
From: jim kelley  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 93625
 
Here is the post on production for the P4!

theregister.co.uk

"Israel to make a million 1.7GHz Pentium 4s
By: Andrew Thomas
Posted: 10/07/2000 at 11:11 GMT

Chipzilla has ordered its plant in Israel, Fab 18, to drop everything and produce 5000 Pentium 4 wafers - each containing around 200 little P4s - within six weeks.

Sources close to Fab 18 tell The Reg that these chips will be rated at 1.7GHz.

Fab 18 is used to dealing with abrupt U-turns. Until March, the plant had been churning out loads of Timna system on a chip (SoC) processors, but switched over to Pentium IIIs in early April and has shipped 10 million Coppermines since then. [So how come there's still a shortage? - Ed].

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