>  >         I do not know about the assertion that the chips with a bug are
>  > useless.  These are very complex devices and many times can not be
>  > completely debugged till thousands of customers are looking at them

My thoughts would be, without trying to attract "well, how many chips
have YOU made lately ?" comments -

o  what sort of facilities do they have for (accelerated) testing and
routines
and scenarios to test every function and feature of the silicon ?

o  how does a silicon bug come about in the first place ? Are there not
manufacturing templates for the various modules ?

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