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To: Yousef who wrote (74636)	3/15/2002 12:21:12 PM
From: Elmer	Respond to of 275872

ROTFLMAO ... You have to be kidding, right ?? Why would AMD quote their "line yield". This makes no sense ... unless ... the functional yield (defect density) is "piss poor" I'm not kidding. They quoted their line yields. The analysts and the Droids bought it hook line and sinker. Shipped record units of microprocessors at 7 million 810 thousand with a favourable mix towards Athlon versus Duron. We shipped tens of thousands of model XP 2000 in the quarter and produced 4 million Athlons XP. Yield and cycle times were at record numbers with line yield in the high 90s in our Fabs and cycle times at world class benchmarks. jc-news.com EP

To: Yousef who wrote (74636)	3/15/2002 12:24:07 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Yousef, how's by you? That's why when asked about "yields" they described their "line yield" as over 90%, a totally useless metric but enough to fool the analysts ..." >>ROTFLMAO ... You have to be kidding, right ?? Why would AMD quote their "line yield". This makes no sense ... unless ... the functional yield (defect density) is "piss poor" -> technical term coined during the AMD .35um and .25um days. <ggg> Not kidding at all. I heard it, everybody heard it that listened to the conference call, or was it the technology update a few weeks ago. Amazingly, some people took off on the "nineties percent line yields" as if it meant real yields. I think it was semiconeng (or was it Fingolfen?) that straightened the whole thing out. Tony