Quote Originally Posted by roofsniper View Post
yea i read chew*'s thread about the batch numbers. knopflerbruce was correct when he said the L represents the 12th month, the 8 represents 2008 and the last 4 are a wafer id. im just confused as to why they would have 2 different numbers/letters on there telling what the month and years are.
The bottom line is like a serial # for rma purposes I believe. If you look at lets say a TV for instance it will say manufactured june 08 and then it will have a serial # also including the manufacturing date in the form of a code.

Thats why posting a chip with just the bottom line blotched out is cool.