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

To: Charles R who wrote (73896)	10/4/1999 11:18:00 PM
From: Elmer	Respond to of 1572452

Re: "P.S.: The comments on this thread about AMD yields are based on few highly public failures on K5 and K6 which had to do with stretching the design to meet specs that they were never designed for. Outside of processors, AMD does a lot of highly competitive low margin business - profitably. These guys know a thing or two about yields. " That's not entirely true. The relationship between die size and yields based on defect density is not something we conjured up just to knock AMD. It is an industry standard. Larger die mean lower yield both in absolute as well as relative terms. As for AMD doing a lot of low margin business profitably, well... you're just arguing for even greater losses for their processor division to cause their huge overall losses. Keep in mind, AMD has never shown a profit for any inhouse processor design. Ever.... K5... K6... K7.... and counting.... EP