Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

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

To: Bill Jackson who wrote (33869)	7/2/1998 7:31:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574265

Bill, re: lawsuit. Its possible that once the yield on the 0.35µ Pentium II reached 98% or so, meaning that 98% of working processors ran properly at 300 MHz, that Intel decided to save a couple bucks a processor by not testing for speed. AFter all, if 98% worked at 300 MHz under worst case conditions such as high temperature and lowest allowable power supply voltage, then probably 99.8% of them would work at 300 MHz under "nominal" conditions. IF this is the case, Intel could owe money to those who paid more for a "deluxe" CPU. I have seen some comments on message boards about 300 MHz Pentium II owners claiming that their chips won't run at speed, but usually its blamed on remarking of the chips. Maybe, maybe not. Perhaps Intel just speed-tests a few chips per wafer, and if it passes by enough margin, marks the whole wafer's good chips as 300 MHz. This is probably legal if backed up by good statistics. The presence of the suit may be enough to force Intel into fully speed-testing their Celerons before marking them as 266 vs. 300. Petz