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To: Elmer Phud who wrote (120103)	4/27/2004 1:09:25 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) of 275872

"just about everybody but IBM is having great success with 300mm wafers!" Do you know what "PLD" stands for? Programmable logic devices are configurable arrays of identical elements which can be re-configured to avoid defective CLBs (Configurable Logic Blocks) and therefore increase the number of sellable chips and recover the cost of wafer fabrication. Similar redundancy goes for memory devices. You can't do redundancy on CPU core (not yet), therefore the "crossover" (if any) will happen much-much later. I think a test Engineer like yourself should be capable to understand the difference. Also, Altera and Xilinx do not make any wafers, TSMC and UMC do. And I remember a while ago someone was mocking about abilities of Taiwanese foundries to make submicron chips. Wasn't it you, Elmer FUD? Funny how you make an example of them now... - Ali Oops, assembly pipeline calls, have to go...

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