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To: Elmer who wrote (66442)	12/27/2001 9:42:21 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Elmer, No way to know this. Only production people at the various ccompanies would know how wide the bin split would be and what are the pro/cons of moving the peak up to higher speeds. It is not likely that the same production wafers throw off both 1400 and 1800 Mhz parts in large numbers. Is there anyone here who can comment to this aspect? It seems to me that there would be enormous pressure to narrow down the range of speeds from a run. Now making them faster and faster might well make the yield lower and lower. You get fast one, but many failed one, not lots of slow ones as well as fast ones. I know NEC had this problem years ago. Unable to make slow parts so all their parts were fast and marked as assorted slower grades. As soon as this was know we bought only the slow cheaper parts and they worked fine. Now with clock locking you can tell the parts what role they must play and unless people short the surface jumpers they cannot make that change. Bill