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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Paul Engel who wrote (61964)	6/16/1999 3:53:00 PM
From: Shane Geary	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573539

Paul - Re: "I'm just providing some evidence of why AMD's yields are - and most likely will continue to be - LOWER than Intel's - MUCH lower." and "I think this lack of modern sophistication within AMD's newest fab should be cause for alarm." Being up-to-date with modern cleanroom concepts, you will be aware that probably the best proposals for future fabs have wafers sealed from the outside environment in mini- and micro-environments. This will hopefully mean that operators will have to wear nothing more than white coats and cleanroom shoes in a class 1000 environment. No-one is that far yet, but I quote from an article on the Dresden fab "Because Fab 30 is new, it could make maximum use of SMIF pod automation. Much of the fab can operate with a less-expensive Class 100 cleanroom environment since the wafers are contained in a protected pod, Saltich said." supersite.net