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To: Joe NYC who wrote (51977)	4/3/1998 2:53:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Jozef - Re: " Don't you think that both Tony Viola and his theory are nuts?" Absolutely NOT! Tony Viola is exactly right! I asked you to call AMD and ask them if they are still doing 100% BURN IN in their K6 product. Did you bother to do so? Did you listen to Jerry Sanders in the October 1997 conference call? For your reference, pick a couple of issues of the IEEE Transactions on Reliability... Check out the articles. I think you will have little trouble finding many articles discussing the relationship between low yields and low reliability. The way Semi companies get around this problem is performing 100% Burn-In - essentially forcing the early life failures to occur inside the Burn-In ovens of the semiconductor manufacturer - rather than in the customer's systems. This is generally done at 125 C AMBIENT (ocasionaly 150 C is used), under (possibly) accelerated voltage, with all devices being driven dynamically, to help accelerate failures. Burn-in, especially 100% Burn-In, can hide a lot of sins. Paul