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- From: tdbear@tandon.com (Tom Barrett)
- Subject: Re: Does a 487sx shut down the 486sx??
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.172131.27778@tandon.com>
- Organization: Tandon Corporation, Moorpark, CA
- References: <1992Aug26.173519.22421@unislc.uucp> <1992Aug27.183804.8605@tandon.com> <GLEW.92Sep1091842@pdx007.intel.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 17:21:31 GMT
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- In article <GLEW.92Sep1091842@pdx007.intel.com> glew@pdx007.intel.com (Andy Glew) writes:
- >Test vectors are cheap. But tester time isn't. Testers are often the
- >manufacturing bottleneck.
-
- Andy, since you are in a good position to find out... could
- you post how long it takes to test the 486DX and how long it
- takes for the 486SX? Then could you provide an approximate
- number of chips which go through one particular tester each
- day (on the average). I know I am curious about this, and I
- am sure others are, too.
-
- I truely cannot believe that the 486sx PGA (which probably
- still has the numeric) would not be tested thoroughly to
- ensure that all of the silicon is working (even though it
- won't be used) since there is a slight chance a damaged
- numerics area might cause contamination to the rest of the
- chip if (say) something overheats.
-
- With the time and chip counts, we can come up with a
- reasonable estimate once and for all :)
-
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