Xilinx Assessing Recall Impact

By Jessica Davis -- Electronic News, 6/30/2006

Xilinx is still assessing the impact of a recall of some of the devices in its lower-end Spartan family.

The recall, caused by a defect in packaging/assembly, includes Spartan-3, Spartan-3E and Spartan-3L FPGAs made between early September 2005 and late April of this year.

“What we know at this point is that it impacts a limited quantity of Spartan-3 devices,” a spokeswoman for the San Jose-based programmable logic company said. “The root cause is packaging/assembly and not silicon – and only one customer has confirmed failure.”

The spokeswoman said that the company’s suppliers have corrected the problem, which is isolated to certain packaging parts.

“We currently have ample good replacement die available to ship,” she said. “We don’t believe the quality issue is unique to Xilinx.”

Xilinx has also yet to determine whether the issue will have a material impact on financial statements, the spokeswoman said.