Tony, Re: "presentation by Robert Gasser, Jr., Intel, about process development, yields, copy exactly, etc"
Remember a week or so ago when one of the AMDroids was trying to prove that Pentium III Coppermine bin splits were at about 866MHz? According to the graph on page 12 of that presentation, it seems that they were recently slightly below 1GHz (with maximum bin split at about 1.1GHz and minimum at about 900MHz). Whatever Advanced Process Control is, it happened to improve bin splits 4% on average and 6% on the minimum. This means that current Coppermine processors at least come out working at 950MHz, with most of them binning out at over 1GHz.
You may not have realized you had this confirmation, but thanks for providing it.
Also, it's nice to see that 300mm wafer manufacturing is yielding some very good results. The transistors seem to be even better than with the 200mm wafers. In fact, page 28 of the presentation suggests lower current leakage levels for Northwood on 300mm wafers at the same frequencies (<5%, though). It looks like Intel will hit the ground running with these.
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