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To: Tiley who wrote (32359)	5/3/1998 10:03:00 PM
From: Time Traveler	Read Replies (1) of 1571702

Why do you think K6 yield problem is solved? Only 1.55M K6, 90% on 0.35um, are produced/shipped in Q1'98. In the previous quarter, a relatively impressive 1.5M K6 were produced, almost all on 0.35um. The tell-tale sign of a yield problem is that the more K6 produced the more loss AMD suffers from quarter to quarter, almost linearly. Very conveniently, 0.35um yield problem was announced solved just weeks before 0.35um is scrapped. That was just a morale-booster for the 0.25um process. In reality, the yield problem is the result of aggressive design rule and immature manufacturing technology. The guy responsible for the mess was `let go' months ago. Similarly, another guy who tried to move the numbers around to make AMD look not as bad as it did was also `let go' recently. Time Traveler

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