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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Elmer who wrote (45409)1/11/1999 1:11:00 AM
From: Petz  Read Replies (1) of 1582977
 
Yousef, re:"The $2000/wafer costs that you quote already include depreciation"

I'm shocked at Intel's low yields. With $780M of depreciation and cost much less than $2000/wafer, that means Intel bought over 390,000 8" wafers to produce 26,000,000 CPU's.

Intels yield is "much less" than 67 CPU's per wafer.

And I didn't even count the fact that they might have to pay the workers running the fab and buy the wafers to begin with. If the depreciation per wafer is $1,000. Intel must have bought 780,000 8" wafers. In truth Intel's yield must be "much less" than 33 CPU's per wafer.

That's funny, Paul told us Intel got over 150 CPU's per wafer.

Petz
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