Elmer Re... gave Pete every opportunity to modify his absurd claim but he declined.<<<<<<<<<<<<<
What absurd claim. Read what Pete said.
<<<< If you have data that Intel does start every possible wafer, their yields are dismal. At $5K in processing costs per wafer, 200K wafers a week would require $1 billion a week or $13 billion a quarter. They couldn't sell that many CPUs, especially in this market, so they would need to throw 2/3rds of the output into the trash bin. <<<<<
From your post, Pete said that Intel isn't starting every possible wafer, which would be 200,000 wafers per wk, and he also said that Intel would have to throw 2/3 into the bin; which implies that Intel is actually starting 1/3 of that which = 67,000 which = 4.2 x 67000 which = 296,000 wafers per month. Another case of the Bees misinterpreting what someone says, and then trying to make a case out of it. You could say that Intel doesn't have a 200,000 wafer/wk capacity, just a 120,000 w/wk capacity, but Pete didn't say Intel started 200,000 w/wk. |
