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To: sylvester80 who wrote (56555)	10/4/2000 1:23:05 PM
From: Don Green	Read Replies (3) of 93625

Pentium 4 yields 'not impressive' By: Andrew Thomas Posted: 04/10/2000 at 16:06 GMT Someone at Intel's notoriously-leaky Qiryat-Gat plant (Fab 18) in Israel has been blabbing to Israeli paper Haaretz about teething troubles with the upcoming Pentium 4 chip. Haaretz reports that there are only two steppers in the world capable of handling one critical part of the P4 manufacturing process. Both of them are at Qiryat-Gat and one of them doesn't work properly. The paper claims that P4 was meant to be built using new machines which weren't delivered on time and the old steppers aren't really up to the task with yields of 70 per cent on the P4 compared with 80 per cent for Pentium III parts. And due to P4's larger die size, only 100 chips per wafer can be built, compared with 250 PIIIs. As a result, P4 production is running at just 70,000 a week, Intel reportedly having set a target of 100,000 a week before the part can be launched. Intel was unavailable for comment at press time.

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