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To: semiconeng who wrote (68185)	1/18/2002 12:26:54 AM
From: milo_morai	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 275872

It's not strange at all considering INTC won't even tell the world how many CPU's it sold and some type of break down. AMD provides far more data than INTC does.

To: semiconeng who wrote (68185)	1/19/2002 7:28:05 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Respond to of 275872

And surely you already know that it is confidential, otherwise you wouldn't have mentioned it. Uncovering that attempt was Elementry....Don't play dumb with me Watson. Wafers get scrapped prior to test for many reasons. Also, there can be very different criteria at different fabs by which wafers get scrapped out prior to test. Also, scrapped wafers imply something went wrong ....at times due to human error. This implies some kind of blame which leads to very different motivations whether/when/and where to scrap out wafers. Now at AMD, we don't need any details because the final result says at least 96% of started wafers make it to test. Of course.... no such information from Intel. So wafers scrapped prior to test don't show up in die yield. Do you know what is the line yield in the line in which you work? Do you as a RIE process engineer have access to die yield and bin split data from P4? Do all process engineers have access to this data or is it restricted? THE WATSONYOUTH