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To: steve harris who wrote (86562)	1/11/2000 3:54:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572580

steve, It is quite a problem if Intel indeed has low yields due to notch failures across the board. others here deny this and I am not sure if it respect to where their bread gets buttered or truth. It does stand to reason that if you make a notch that it is thinner and faster. It is also more fragile and since there will be point to point variation across the die and across the wafer there is the risk of excess leakage as well as punchthrough under voltage as well as direct shorts, all of which lower yields....as we have seen. Problems like this tend to be chaotic and not readily controllable....as we are seeing. Bill