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To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (3228)	1/10/1999 6:30:00 PM
From: jwk	Respond to of 9818

I read the article.....along with a great deal of other industry information. You, apparently, haven't done the math. Estimates are for a small percentage of problem chips. The best sources I see give a consistent range of 1% - 10%. This produces and estimated 400,000,000 to 4,000,000,000 questionable chips. It's a time and inventory problem. Again, for those chips which have problems, those which up and die are the best result. Next best are those which function but produce such wildly erroneous data as to be easily seen to be malfunctioning. Most insidious are those which appear to work fine, but which are actually making minor, incremental errors which could result in them sending bad data all over the place for weeks, months, or even years. I do encourage you to keep up the research. I am constantly looking for solid data which will help me lower my level of concern.