Intel Corp (INTC)

[SemiconEng]

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.

--- I "claimed" no such thing. What I said was......

--- That means that the chip went through Wafersort (Die Functionality Testing As a Whole Wafer), Assembly, Final Test (Bin/Speed Testing as a Packaged Part), Burn In, and Post Burn In Test, in less than 1 week (let's not forget shipping time). This should normally take 2-3 weeks. My guess would be that they skipped the burn-in alltogether, If they did that, and held the testing tools open and unused, and hand carried the wafers all the way through, they might have been able to meet the 1 week timeframe. I wouldn't bet my life on the reliability of that part though.

--- All I "claimed", was that the part was rushed out the door, which is not normal procedure. You're the one who read "Something Dire" into it. If people read into a statement what's not there, it's not my fault.


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.

--- Good thing you said, "So far as I know", because what that statement proves, is that some people who have been out of the industry for awhile, don't know as much as they think they do.

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