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To: Scumbria who wrote (120726)12/5/2000 5:21:15 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 186894
 
Scumbria, <The yields on a 500mm^2 chip are going to be very, very low.>

So what? Cascades, Intel's only processor right now for high-end servers, is 385 mm2. And this market segment is experiencing high growth and will continue to do so well into the future.

So far, AMD has had trouble fabbing anything above 120 mm2. The AMDroids are all hopeful for a Sledgehammer featuring dual cores, large L2 cache, and integrated LDT north bridge. No doubt this bad boy will be one huge chip to fab, even on 0.13u. Any idea how AMD is going to overcome that problem of low yields?

Tenchusatsu



To: Scumbria who wrote (120726)12/6/2000 1:03:44 AM
From: Paul Engel  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 186894
 
SCUMbria - Re: "The yields on a 500mm^2 chip are going to be very, very low"

Let's just suppose that Intel only yielded 30 die/wafer for the McKinley.

Let's also suppose that Intel sells these for, say, $2000/each.

That would generate $60,000 per wafer.

Not bad - since a finished wafer only costs about $2500 to produce.

Wasn't AMD's goal to REACH $10,000/wafer in revenue?

Paul


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