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To: JBoyd who wrote (35349)	7/31/1998 2:19:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 1573221

J, OK, now I understand what you were saying. Although some yield problems were fixed in April it took until June before these wafers worked their way to saleable products...any rocket production aside. June is when production output started to take a quantum leap. The difference between now and April as far as production goes is like night and day...both in numbers, yields and being all .25 now. Even the output levels now are significantly higher than in June. AMD has a little leeway now in that they can play around with the wafers to get higher speed grades and still have no problem meeting demand for the 266-300-333 bin chips. Meanwhile, Intel seems to be having some manufacturing difficulties perhaps due to "customs" problems in Hong Kong according to Gary Ng. Unverified, except that esc tech is crying about a shortage of Intel chips in August... Jim