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To: Petz who wrote (35570)	8/7/1998 1:43:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574888

Petz - Re: "Here's what I think the nature of the production problem is: Intel is having difficulty making a sufficient qunatity of the SRAM's needed for the L2 cache inside Pentium II Packages." Earth to Petz ! EARTH TO PETZ ! News FLASH ! Intel doesn't make the SRAM's for the Pentium II L2 cache ! These run at half the CPU speed and are commercially available. I believe NEC, Toshiba and Samsung have been suppliers of these L2 SRAM chips in the past. Intel DOES MAKE the L2 SRAMs used in the Pentium Pro and the Pentium II Xeons. Paul

To: Petz who wrote (35570)	8/7/1998 1:50:00 AM
From: Elmer	Respond to of 1574888

Re: "Other reasons for a shortage of Intel SRAM's 1. The Xeon chips, because of the chipset bug, need perfect SRAM's, so they're eating a lot of production capacity because of low yield. (The ECC can't be trusted to "fix" SRAM's which aren't perfect) 2. Ramping up of the Mendocino chip has taken production capactiy away from SRAM production, so while the Mendocino chips are "in process" there's a shortage of SRAM." John, this article is spouting jibberish that is utter nonsense. A device either meets the specifications or it doesn't. Re : "The ECC can't be trusted to "fix" SRAM's which aren't perfect" If SDRAMS were "perfect" why would you need ECC? EP