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To: Aaron Cooperband who wrote (82543)	6/3/1999 12:12:00 AM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (1) of 186894

Why do they bother to print these chips around the edges, since they will obviously end up in the trash bin? Beats me. Also, it seems that if you shifted certain rows so that they were out of alignment with the rows above and below you could squeeze in a few extra chips. Why don't they do this? My guess is that the outer rim is very-low yield anyway and it's not worth the effort. It would seem to my layman's brain that if there were going to be imperfections in the silicon crystal they would be on the periphery. It could be that if you tried to squeeze chips out of these areas then you could actually end up with more chips touching the low-yield area and end up with fewer working chips. Or maybe I'm completely wrong.

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