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- From: ssivakum@ptdcs2.intel.com (Sam Sivakumar)
- Subject: Re: Simple CPU Questions
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.160343.24677@ptdcs2.intel.com>
- Organization: Intel Corporation -- Aloha, Oregon
- References: <72263@cup.portal.com> <1993Jan5.121048.9355@uxmail.ust.hk> <1993Jan5.212031.29177@ptdcs2.intel.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 16:03:43 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan5.212031.29177@ptdcs2.intel.com> ssivakum@ptdcs2.intel.com (Sam Sivakumar) writes:
- > This technique however is not uncommon in the industry, especially
- >in the case of microcontrollers. Very often, microcontrollers whose logic
- >portions do not work can be sold as EPROMs, since microcontrollers, for the
- >most part, are logic cores surrounded by a fair amount of memory.
- >
- I stand corrected on this. Actually, microcontrollers whose memory
- does not work are sold as stand-alone controllers, not the other way around
- as I have mentioned above.
- Shows how little us process engineers know about the products we make
- in the fab!
-
- --
- Sam Sivakumar | Intel's very own lithography dude,
- ssivakum@ptdcs5.intel.com | Speakin' for himself, that's for sure!
- PTD, Aloha, OR |
-