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To: FJB who wrote (23748)	2/12/1998 3:08:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33344

"Just when I start to think you have a brain, you come up with this nonsense post" Robert, Actually, most of friends and co-workers do not consider me to be a complete idiot. Apparently I even had you fooled for a few minutes! I think that a 44mm2 die will produce about twice as many die/wafer as an 88mm2 die ;^) All other variables kept equal (defect density in particular) the smaller die will yield a higher percentage. Don't underestimate the financial implications of such a discrepancy. When CPU's sold for $500, it didn't matter much if your production costs were $50 or $75. In a $30 CPU market, small differences in production cost will mean the difference between success and failure.