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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Kashish King who wrote (26729)12/15/1997 6:14:00 PM
From: Petz   of 1576159
 
Rod, re:<One eight-inch wafer of Intel's tiny 233-Mhz Pentium MMX chips contains an estimated 211 chips worth $125,000>

Please give the URL for Micro Design Resources because this is an inaccurate and ridiculous claim.

1. No wafer of Tillamook chips contains 100% 233 Mhz chips. A more likely mix on a new process technology is 50% 000MHz chips, 30% 200MHz chips and 20% 233MHz chips. There are about 360 potential chips on an 8" wafer (31400 mm X 92% / 80 mm). That would make 72 233 MHz chips and 108 200 MHz chips, NOT the 211 quantity asserted by your post.

2. The price of the 200 MHz chips is only $423, not the $592 claimed by the article. I've never seen the price for the 233 MHz Tillamook quoted.

Petz
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