dtynan@sultra.UUCP (Der Tynan) (11/04/88)
I can remember a fairly well-known American chip manufacturer palying some
tricks with their 256K DRAMs. They way the story goes is that their 64K's
were the WORST in the business. They died like flies. So, when the company
introduced their 256Kx1 chips, they put ECC into the chip (yes, the CHIP).
Any given row address had a few extra bits (which were not readable). If an
error developed, the ECC would eliminate it. The result? Their chips were
just great! Real low on errors, and high in manufacturing yield. The
problem, however, is that there is no way to disable the ECC, so a given
chip may be on its last legs when you buy it...
- Der
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