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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)
AMD 217.53+1.5%Nov 28 9:30 AM EST

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To: Dan3 who wrote (201244)6/8/2006 10:24:21 PM
From: combjelly of 275872
 
"The cache halves are fusible and if part of the cache doesn't pass testing they disable that half and save a packaged die."

And that is probably only the first few 3600+ processors. A dual core, 256k L2 product is just the sort of thing that you would expect Chartered to pump out. Small die, high yielding with modest clock rate is exactly the sort of thing Chartered excels at.
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