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- From: dmccart@gomez.intel.com (D. J. McCarthy)
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- Subject: Re: id in parts
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- Date: 16 Dec 92 00:40:05 GMT
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- M. Wiltink.a73A.telnr-015-138378 (wiltinkm@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl) wrote:
-
- > As far as I know, but I don't know and that basically means nothing, 80x86
- > processors have no code anywhere except maybe on the housing that enables you
- > to tell the n'th chip produced from the (n+1)'th chip, or any other chip from
- > the same line.
-
- I've been reading this thread and have declined to comment on
- it so far mainly because I don't have a clue as to whether Intel does
- anything like uniquely ID'ing each chip or not. But if you stop to
- think about it, it wouldn't make much sense. EACH chip would have to
- get stamped just a *little* bit differently from each other chip,
- which would make mass production almost impossible and certainly send
- production costs through the roof.
-
- Even putting it in some sort of ROM section later (to be
- burned in at encasing time or something) would seem to me to be
- extremely cost-ineffective. But like I said, I really have no idea.
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- D. J. McCarthy (dmccart@gomez.intel.com)
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