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To: Tony Viola who wrote (83004)	6/7/1999 12:04:00 PM
From: Elmer	Respond to of 186894

Re: "Mighty low. IBM is touting MTBFs of 30 years! on these machines, which are mainframes (ugly word these days, preferred name S390). Now, you know as well as I do that, with reliability = yield (or a strong derivative of it) IBM wouldn't be putting out MTBF claims in the 30 year range, on machines with 100s of millions of gates complexity, unless the defect density was way way under control and low." Maybe but not necessarily. Longer burnin can extend MTBF but at an obvious cost increase. I find it significant that they are using this copper process for their very high margin systems where yield may not be significant. Until we see a high volume cost competitive product on copper we can't infer anything about yields. EP