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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (40813)	5/21/2001 8:34:23 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 275872

Bill, the tests by Bert McComas showed that the only way to get the P4 out of half speed mode was to reboot. Considering that this has been shown to happen running commercially available engineering applications like Matlab, and considering that 3/4 of the workstations used by engineers are rebooted only once or twice a week, the P4 is unsuitable for engineers until this problem is fixed. Someone told me that there is a fix in the works for the P3 or P4 "hot spot" problem (can't remember which) involving a liquid inside the package. I don't know if this has already been implemented or is perhaps reserved for the 478 pin package. Petz