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To: Charles R who wrote (16524)	10/29/2000 2:26:01 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 275872

RE:"The folks counting on August were very optimistic or clueless - anyone with CPU experience would have pegged a conservative launch at First Silicon + 1 year. That's what I thought from gleening from Scumbria and Athlon release. Looks like 10 months or so for the P4...is that a rush job or is Intel just better? RE:"<it doesn't explain wide time differential between Saturn Vs first Silicon in January and Elmer "in-fab" in December or earlier comment...> It does. December tapeout and January Silicon - the chip is fab between tapeout and silicon - no mystery there" OK, that explains it, thanks... tape out-->In Fab-->first Silicon-->test ----- Now, once you have first silicon, can you do some design changes without taping out again and starting the process over again? Or do you have to go back and tape out again? Jim