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To: Paul Engel who wrote (159874)2/24/2002 9:04:14 AM
From: Exciton  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
Paul, Questions related to AMD's foundry agreements with UMC. When a foundry has multiple clients that it is trying to satisfy on a given process, are there significant trade-offs in process parameters that must be made to allow for production of the different chips on a single line? If UMC, for example, were trying to balance process parameters between NVIDIA graphics chips and AMDs processors, what types of trade-offs would be made and what impact would those trade-offs have on each party?

I suppose the foundry could dedicate a given line in a fab to a particular high volume customer, but wouldn't that be rather inefficient unless the customer could guarantee maximum line utilization?

A related question: If the process parameters at AMD's Dresden fab and UMC are significantly different for a given node, what complications might arise that would affect yield and performance? Would the chip designers have to modify the original design parameters for production on the UMC process?
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