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To: Elmer who wrote (73849)10/4/1999 3:55:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1572384
 
Elmer - RE: "You missed the point. Maybe it does yield well, for a 184mm2 chip, but that's poor compared to a smaller one. Good is still bad."

Anand said this -

"The yields on the Athlon (the percentage of usable/marketable CPUs out of the number of CPUs produced) have been incredible. Since before the release of the K5, the Athlon is the highest yielding CPU AMD has produced for public release."

Maybe he is talking about % and you are talking actual # per wafer.



To: Elmer who wrote (73849)10/4/1999 8:46:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1572384
 
Elmer,
RE:"You missed the point. Maybe it does yield well, for a 184mm2 chip, but
that's poor compared to a smaller one. Good is still bad"...

No I didn't, I know well that the bigger the die the more loss around the wafer edges. Even at a cost of $100 a chip...profits can be good if they are high end/high selling price chips...
If with a big die...good is still better than bad.

Jim


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