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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Paul Engel who wrote (28071)	1/22/1998 9:11:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1574177

Paul, Thanks, I knew they did something like that, but not just how. So they have a sea of FPGAs and 'make it go', as Yousef would almost say. As you say use a broken ruler, make broken parts, I wonder how many other errors are out there, unfound, as that particular combination was never tested. How will they test even production line CPUs in a timely manner when they get into the 50 million transistor area?(in a few years) I can see just testing them could take time, unless they test them chip area by chip area and then do a fast all up and running test, and then rely on client based QC. Bill