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To: Ali Chen who wrote (37482)	9/25/1998 11:09:00 PM
From: Elmer	Respond to of 1583871

Re: "The fast pace of development has also been difficult to sustain. Two separate bugs with the 400-MHz Xeon processor, rolled out in June, have hindered the volume release of the chip." also "I wonder how "good" are yields on those hand-picked Xeons-4 if there is such a shortage." Ali, It is my understanding that the use of the word "bug" here needs some correction. Yes some of these parts weren't fully functional with a fullspeed backside bus at 400mhz, but some were, so this is a "binsplit" issue by definition, and not a bug. It would also be incorrect to call this a yield issue because in this industry "yield" refers to Functional vrs Defective parts, not bin distribution. In addition that doesn't mean the fallout went into the garbage can. They still worked fine as PII processors with a half speed BSB, so they still provide revenue, although not with the high Xeon margins. I understand this is now remedied and Xeons are beginning to appear in higher volumes. EP