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Re: Pentium III...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Lemos)
Tue Jan 26 12:55:32 1999
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 10:32:21 -0800
From: Rob Lemos <Rob_Lemos@zd.com>
To: Marty Levy <rwww60@email.sps.mot.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net, coderpunks@toad.com, sci.crypt@email.sps.mot.com
Intel will fuse the serial number onto the chip using "well-known
technologies." This allows them to number only the good chips, as they can
fuse the chip after it is tested.
-R
Robert Lemos
ZDNet News
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Subject: Re: Pentium III...
Does anyone know the mechanism Intel plans to use to put the infamous
serial
numbers on Pentium III chips? I wasn't aware that Pentiums had any
non-volitaile memory (other than ROM) on board. The only practical systems
I
can think of is to use a fuse or laser repair type scheme.
