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To: Elmer Phud who wrote (259580)	4/7/2009 6:34:06 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

"They did use a notched gate but that was by design." Of course it was by design. It was a process trick that was supposed to get some extra performance. No one has ever claimed it was an accident. The "botched" moniker is because it apparently resulted in ugly bin splits. A small number of fast chips, and a lot of really slow ones. "The 1.13GHz speedpath problem was a very tiny volume of parts." That is an understatement. Dell was the only one to actually ship it and, after the recall, apparently only a couple of dozen machines all together the entire time it was on the market.