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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (44600)	1/2/1999 6:06:00 PM
From: kash johal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572264

Bill, Re: Qual. Basically every semiconductor company qualifies it's products for much greater than 5 yr. life. The qual takes about 8-12 weeks and involves 1000 hr burn in at 125C. You can accelerate the time by burning in at say 155C. This reliability stuff for any semiconductor is well understood and NO chips are sold unless they can support a 30 year life. The major issues for servers etc are not the integrated circuits but other components (like power supplies, hard drives) etc. The K7 will get designed into servers quickly IMHO if it truly offers a performance advantage over Xeon as expected. If there is no performance advantage then the server guys will stick with Intel. In that case the K7 will only be a player in the single perfromace PC/Workstation market. Regards, Kash J.