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To: Petz who wrote (33870)	7/2/1998 9:41:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574485

Petz, I find it hard to credit a 98% yield as others have intimated that the 80's is about the best one can do with large complex parts after the line has run in for some time. Is that your legendary sarcasm showing? It also seems hard to not fully test such a complex part? Can one assume the whole things works after a quick go-nogo test. I have heard of banks of high speed testers that run through quite a complex set of tests via on chip self test routines that report to the tester, and other off chip tests and the passing candidates are put into carriers and tested further. Statistics means zero here IMO. The fact that they take 300 Mhz, or 400 Mhz parts and remark as 266 or 300 or other slower speed is exactly the cause for the lawsuit as they are showing they can sell the 400 Mhz part for the 300 price and so the 400 buyers have been ripped off. They overpaid is all, they paid for a 400 and got a 400, the others paid for a 300 and got a 400, nice deal if you know it and can clock it to 400. Ferret time for lawyers. Bill