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To: Elmer Phud who wrote (264886)	11/6/2010 10:01:29 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: They aren't even sampling yet and customers frequently discover bugs which require rework. Claiming April production startup is just a guess at this point. You're confusing AMD with Intel. Intel frequently ships CPUS and chipsets for which customers later report errors, forcing a fix, recall, or cancellation of the chip. The only case I can think of where AMD shipped a chip with an unlisted errate that had no fix is the Barcelona, where AMD found, reported, and fixed the issue without an customer ever seeing it. Intel, on the other hand, shipped defective chips, had customer report issues, then argued that it didn't matter over (floating point error - found by an enduser), and over (can't compile linux - found by Tom's Hardware ), and over again (Xeon 550 chipset - found by HP).