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To: Dan3 who wrote (48928)	7/25/2001 12:02:25 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 275872

Re: "Lying again, I see. That 3rd party report claimed that AMD said that, in the past, there were characteristics that were missed by their testing that could have permitted a few defective chips to ship." Not lying at all - Sleaze Sanders et al. just fessed up to shipping MILLIONS of these defective parts (you can do the math to get the Million+ figure !!)- Message 16124522 To:Mani Ahmadi who started this subject From: andreas_wonisch Wednesday, Jul 25, 2001 8:31 AM View Replies (1) \| Respond to of 48946 AMD confirms JPEG bug, offers replacement (c't) heise.de According to the German AMD PR manager Jan Guetter only "less than a fraction of a percent" of all processors (K6-2, Duron and Athlon family) are affected. Everyone who has bought a faulty processor, can get a free replacement from AMD. They have also changed their testing procedure, so that they can detect this error in advance. Andreas