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- From: jfc@athena.mit.edu (John F Carr)
- Subject: Re: What's the deal? My chip says "SX-25"; Norton says "SX-33"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.000820.3526@athena.mit.edu>
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- References: <5870140@pollux.svale.hp.com> <C01LuI.542@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <sheldon.725671411@pv141b.vincent.iastate.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 00:08:20 GMT
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- In article <sheldon.725671411@pv141b.vincent.iastate.edu>
- sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon) writes:
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- > But since these are targeted for commercial usage, they're most likely
- >only testing 1 in every 100 or so, as Mike said, a few out of each batch.
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- I thought yields for recent microprocessors were well under 100% (and
- probably under 50%). If this is the case, every chip must be tested.
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- John Carr (jfc@athena.mit.edu)
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