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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Kenith Lee who wrote (72723)9/22/1999 3:27:00 PM
From: Yousef  Read Replies (2) of 1572232
 
Kenith,

Re: "?"

I know that you don't have any "expertise" in IC processing, so let
me give you the 30,000ft view of the situation. -->

yahoo.cnet.com

"The timing of the chip shortage is unfortunate, noted Bonner, because it could extend into the holiday buying season, which is typically the highest sales period for any PC company. Production time for this type of chip is typically 12 weeks, which means that Apple could potentially be caught unprepared for high-volume sales in December, he said."

Of course, I love the Motorolo response to this -->

"Motorola blamed the chip delay upon the G4's complex production cycle. But the firm asserted that because the problem stems from overwhelming demand for the chip, the situation is actually an endorsement of the G4 technology.

"Motorola views this as a great endorsement for its G4 processor," the company said in a statement. "The only time a company does not encounter these kinds of challenges during a product launch is when it produces a chip nobody wants to buy."

This is the same technology that is being "transferred" by "copy exactly"
to the Dresden Fab. My information on this is that there is a defect
density (yield) problem associated with the Copper Damascene process.

Make It So,
Yousef
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