Intel Corp (INTC)

[Heidegger]

I have no idea whether it's the "start" or the "end" of WW39. The point is, a package can be tested and marked in an assembly plant in Asia, given a 24- or 49-hour burn-in, or even more, and then drop-shipped to a white box maker in Asia or even in the U.S. All by WW 40.

(Even a 24-hour BI accomplishes 99.9% of what a burn-in is intended to accomplish: uncovering gross problems such as step coverage, near shorts, and oxide defects. A BI is not to actually age the device, only to exercise it over a temperature range sufficient to uncover gross defects.)

It was you who claimed a device made in WW39 and received by a box maker in WW40 must mean something dire...I claim it does not.

As to the point that it must mean AMD shipped by air, is there any other way these days? So far as I know, nobody ships chips by boat anymore.