"Through many years in this industry I am not familiar with the concept of "final silicon", other than death of the product. ;^)"
Joking right?
For clarification, I meant that the .18u layout for whatever they are making has to go through many design revisions before they can get something that works at an appreciable speed. This doesn't happen overnight, but once it does, expertise (Padman) is no longer needed.
What I did notice is that....
"The Portland fab went from producing no Cyrix chips in August, to making 80% of all Cyrix chips in the middle of the third quarter. And between 2,000 and 3,000 in the early going to 8,000 wafer starts most recently, say McCleod."
If 2,000 to 3,000 was 80%, 8,000 must be somewhere along the lines of 320%.
There making something. I have a feeling that we will find out what it is next week. |
