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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting
QCOM 159.42-1.2%Jan 16 9:30 AM EST
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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (109254)2/3/2012 3:53:35 PM
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as for stunning demo....MQ you said it before. You can make 1 or 2 of them pretty well if you put your best effort into making just those tow, but the cost to do that is prohibitive and the yeild probably in the low 1% range.

When it comes to making millions a month, then you have to have a highly repeatable, cheap process.

When we did first silicon many times we would get 100 chips back fast and get very low yeilds, like 10%, but all you needed was a couple of them to prove that the design was right, so you could go to production level from there. This part took months, had alot of testing development involved, circuit design tweaks to make yeilds get better, finding tiny sets of conditions where the chip failed due to minute physics problems and fixing them or building a test program to weed them out.

The fact that a few companies have started shipping with MIrasol is a pretty good indication that the screen you see on the readers are what they can produce and at a reasonable cost. I also think this is pretty good proof that they are into a production level phase and not just making 5 demo screens for CTIA or world congress any more.
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