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Title:Hudson VLSI
Notice:For Digital Chip Data - CHIPBZ::PRODUCTION$:[DS_INFO...]
Moderator:RICKS::PHIPPS
Created:Wed Feb 12 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:701
Total number of notes:4658

651.0. ""Emergency Shortage of Network Chips"" by WRKSYS::INGRAHAM (Andy) Wed Feb 19 1997 13:49

A few weeks ago, I got a written memo stating that certain DEC network
chips are being emergency-transitioned from the South Queensferry fab
to fab 6 in Hudson.

Motorola, current owner of the South Queensferry fab, lost the recipe
for making these chips.

The affected chips are said to be:

	Tulip2      21040   (21-40593-03)

	Tulip3      21041   (21-40756-01)

	Fasternet3  21140   (21-43864-01)

	Twinet      21142   (21-43915-10)

They all must change to different part numbers, and there are subtle
differences between some of the old and new parts.

Some of the parts may also require external circuit changes.
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651.1YIELD::HARRISWed Feb 19 1997 15:5416
    The following are parts that FAB6 has been making for a while.
    
	Tulip2      21040-AB   (21-40593-05)

	Tulip3      21041-PA   (21-40756-03)
	Tulip3      21041-TA   (21-40756-21)
    
	Fasternet3  21140      (21-43864-02)

	Twinet2     21143      (21-44085-xx)
    
    These parts are all made in our CMOS5L process.  SQF would make these
    in our CMOS4S process. 
    
    -Bruce