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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Lost in New York who wrote (127889)11/9/2000 8:36:54 PM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (1) of 1570556
 
David,

Let me put this in semiconductor terms, given that this is the AMD thread.

A wafer contains hundreds of millions of transistors. Typically, there will be a few dozen defects on a wafer, meaning that a few dozen transistors will be bad.

The distribution of these defects are random across the wafer. It does not matter that we have hundreds of millions of good transistors, the random behavior of the defects is very consistent and predictable.

It is very unlikely that 10 of the defects will be located on one die, and zero on another die.

The large number of non-defects does not affect the random behavior of the defects, in any way shape or form.

Scumbria
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