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To: Tony Viola who wrote (28125)1/26/1998 7:08:00 PM
From: kane  Respond to of 1574680
 
Thank you. I hadn't seen this. I stand corrected.



To: Tony Viola who wrote (28125)1/26/1998 7:59:00 PM
From: Petz  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 1574680
 
Another thought on CPU testability -- AMD has mastered local interconnect, a technology which allows many more I/O pins on a device with (relatively) low cost. OTOH, Intel has not tried local interconnect yet. Additional I/O's obviously improve the ability to detect faults.

AMD's 4Q conference call also revealed that local interconnect was NOT the reason for low yields.

Petz



To: Tony Viola who wrote (28125)1/26/1998 9:22:00 PM
From: Elmer  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574680
 
Sounds like that J973 is a nice tester but memory manufacturers can't buy top of the line testers for memory devices, the margins are too low. Only the processor manufacturers can afford to buy this expensive iron.

EP


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