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To: Petz who wrote (81354)	11/29/1999 2:29:00 AM
From: Process Boy	Respond to of 1572790

Petz - <Using 104 sq. mm, we get 302 die per wafer.> OOOPS. Yep. You got it right. Sorry if you read my first response. I get ~245 die per wafer. PB

To: Petz who wrote (81354)	11/29/1999 2:33:00 AM
From: Process Boy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572790

Petz - <That leaves 240 Athlons per wafer if the yield was 100%.> This is every process guy's dream :-). <I would be ecstatic if AMD had 50% yield already on the 0.18 process.> Wow. At Intel, somebody probably wouldn't be getting any bonus for that kind of performance, if not "reallocated". PB

To: Petz who wrote (81354)	11/29/1999 3:05:00 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572790

RE <<<Remember also that, for most of Q4's output, the die size was 16X mm, with maybe only 40-50 good Athlons out of 150 per wafer.>>> Petz, thanks...no one did answer the question. To take what you said further, next year at best the yield off a Dresden wafer at best probably will be 120 chips. So we can expect production for at least the first half to be at a rate of 120 X 5000 wafers X 4 wks X 6 mos to be about 14 mil chips. Does that figure seem pretty reasonable? That's assuming if Dresden is used for nothing else but Athlons. ted