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To: Paul Engel who wrote (52613)	3/14/1999 7:45:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575608

What Intel doesn't want us to know. ____________________________________________________________________ Unique serial number exists in all .25 micron Intel chips An architect who currently works for Intel US has now confirmed what we were beginning to suspect all along -- every .25 micron Intel chip has the processor serial number (PSN). The chip designer, who revealed the news under strict conditions of anyonymity, said: "Any .25 micron core including the PII, all Celerons and all current Xeons have had serialisation ever since .25 micron technology started." This means that Intel is and was shipping products with the serialisation number switched off. The only exception is the Tillamook P5 .25 micron parts, he said. But why didn't Intel tell us and the whole world what it was doing then, and why? It seems that maybe it just thought it would lump in the PSN announcement to co-incide with the introduction of Katmai-PIII. So when we first broke the story about the Mobile PII with Dixon core, the only "erratum" was that Intel forgot to turn it off. Intriguing. How US bodies pushing for a boycott of Intel parts will react to all of this is even more interesting. ® theregister.co.uk ____________________________________________________________________ So, Intel, what is your next surprise going to be?