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

To: Yousef who wrote (73867)	10/4/1999 11:48:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572604

Yousef - RE: "Do you understand what you are "talking" about, Cringe ?? Let me give you a "hint" ... As die size goes up, the yield % and number of GDPW both go down. Let's face it, Anand is either "making it up" OR just repeating what some AMD PR guy is saying. Do you guys really believe that Anand understands Fab processing, yeah right ... You guys really do "deserve" to lose money on AMD. <ggg>" If you "didn't" take my statement out of "context", you would "see" what I was "saying". Elmer said this - "Maybe it does yield well, for a 184mm2 chip, but that's poor compared to a smaller one." which I took to mean that even though the Athlon may have a high yield %, the actual number of processors per wafer will be less compared to a smaller processor. 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." which I took to mean the yield % of the Athlon is good (for AMD. Happy Burt and Tench?). So after "reading" that "again", you will "see" that when I said "maybe he is talking about % and you are talking actual # per wafer" actually made sense.