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Re: All indications point to Intel doing this solely for a publicity stunt.

What would you call AMD's publicity stunt that announced their intention of demoing their quad core product? They obviously had zero parts, if they had to make an announcement of a demo, rather than showing the demo. How lame.

Re: The statement of Intel having made 4 units only is very specific and pointed

And who made the claim? A CNET article writer who knows nothing about Intel's internal production capabilities. Unless you happen to think that Intel actually revealed to him that they only made 4 parts (LOL!).

Re: There is no evidence or reason (outside of your incredulous imagination) to believe that it is incorrect

How about the fact that it's nonsensical? Is your incredulous imagination so eager to believe something that is clearly absurd?

Re: if you want to dispute it, the definitive way to do so is with facts, not speculation.

It's not speculation. It's saying that production lines simply don't make just 4 chips. The bare minimum is a "lot", which is 20 wafers. You would have had to sneeze on every single wafer to get the defect densities required to kill all but four chips. Does that kind of defect rate correlate with Intel's current process maturity? The *fact* that they have already claimed to have shipped over a million 65nm chips rules that out. Or could it be a design issue? Again, no, because Intel has already shipped Woodcrest samples to vendors, and Clovertown is a pair of Woodcrest chips in an MCM. Any other reasons you can think of that would point to a yield issue?

If no, then it is you who are speculating.