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To: economaniack who wrote (225521)	2/7/2007 1:32:29 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 275872

Economaniack, > Tench, do you have better numbers than 13 weeks for processing testing and packaging start to finish? I believe that Intel recently suggested their process times were even longer. That is already way longer than the two months you offered. Maybe it is three months for normal production, but I believe that can be shortened to eight weeks for initial volumes, especially for a new product launch. I could be wrong, but I know six months is pushing the other extreme. I will say this, though. Initial yields of 10% are horrendous. Unless you're purposely throwing out the lower speed bins, no production-worthy silicon would ever yield that low. Maybe that's fine for the server market, but it's incredibly expensive, and gross margins will suffer as a result. Tenchusatsu