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To: Dan3 who wrote (138724)7/6/2001 11:12:23 AM
From: fingolfen  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
300mm does absolutely nothing except, maybe, cut die cost by a few dollars (and if your wafer yield goes down even a little -vs. die yield, it doesn't even do that). Copper, even at .18, seems to have upped speeds by a bin or two, which can add $50 to a chip's selling price.

If you consider 30% to be "a few dollars," so be it... I find a 30% reduction in silicon COG to be a major feat, personally... I've seen no solid evidence to support your second statement about copper.

300mm is not particularly important - Intel going to .13 is very important, and so is going to copper.

And Intel is well on their way in the move to 0.13 micron, whereas AMD seems to be lagging behind.
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