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- From: schow@bqneh23.bnr.ca (Stanley T.H. Chow)
- Subject: Re: Does a 487sx shut down the 486sx??
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.220629.29316@bcars64a.bnr.ca>
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- References: <GLEW.92Sep1091842@pdx007.intel.com> <1992Sep4.172131.27778@tandon.com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 22:06:29 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep4.172131.27778@tandon.com> tdbear@tandon.com (Tom Barrett) writes:
- >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.
-
- This would indeed be interesting. However, I expect the chance
- of Andy being allowed to post such numbers is only very slightly
- better than the proverbial snowball in hell.
-
- >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.
-
- I assume the 486sx die would have at least disabled or disconnected
- the numeric section, therefore it will be untested.
-
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