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To: Fred Fahmy who wrote (74703)	2/27/1999 4:12:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Fred & Intel Investors - Some Good Details About Intel's Fab 11 From the "not-always-reliable" YUK Register. Intel's Fab 11 - Cranks out >10,000 Wafers/Week. Pentium II Yields are 140 - 160 Die/wafer. If you assume a 131 sq. mm die size and about 80% utilization (large rectangular squares arrayed across a circular wafer), you will compute that Intel's yields run from 72% to 83% ! Paul {============================} theregister.co.uk Posted 27/02/99 11:42pm by Mike Magee in Albuquerque Intel's Fab 11 gets Flash, ramps .18 micron The Register had a rare tour around Intel's vast clean room in Albuquerque today, as executives at the company outlined their plans for Fab 11's future. Brian Harrison, Fab 11 Plant Manager, said: "We're producing well over 10,000 wafers a week and we're the biggest Intel fab. We'll do 1.18 micron process technology in late 1999 or 2000 here." Harrison revealed that there will be a .18 micron Flash to follow the current .25 micron technology Fab 11 is producing. He said that as well as Flash, Fab 11 produced Pentiums, chipsets, Pentium IIs, Pentium IIIs, Xeons and Celerons at the factory. Currently, Fab 11 manages to get yields of between 140-160 Pentium IIs on one eight inch wafer, one Intel employee told The Register. Yields will increase when it moves to .18 micron technology and the 12 inch wafer technology will also help. However, Intel will need a higher level of automation to handle 12 inch wafers. They are currently fragile and expensive and require investment in the right type of equipment. This explains Howard High's comments on 300 mm (12 inch) technology (See separate story). Fab 11 will move to .13 micron at the end of next year, as Merced begins its slow progress towards proliferation. Fab 11 currently ships thousands of eight inch wafers on .35 micron and .25 micron technologies, he said. He said Fab 11 will begin manufacturing Flash in April 99 on the .25 micron process technology, with successful prototype product out of the line. Intel is expected to shrink its Easy BGA (ball grid array) packaging, Stacked CSP packaging and its Micro BGA packaging shortly. And yes, we have a photo of the staffer in his Bunny Suit ordinaire. ®

To: Fred Fahmy who wrote (74703)	2/27/1999 4:20:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

Intel Investors - S3's New Savage4 AGP 3D Graphics Accelerator already has drivers optimized for the Pentium III's SSE (Streaming SIMD) Extensions. Look for more Graphics Hardware vendors to follow real soon ! Paul {==========================} theregister.co.uk Posted 26/02/99 5:36pm by Tony Smith Savage4 optimsed for PIII says S3 Intel's favourite 3D acceleration specialist S3 today announced one of the first fruits of its technology alliance with the chip manufacturer: the optimisation of its Savage4 chip-set for the Pentium III's Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE). According to John Brothers, S3's VP for architecture and software, optimising Savage4's ICD and Direct3D drivers for the SSE allows the host PC to "feed transformed, clipped, lit triangles to or hardware at a rate closer to what the Savage4 architecture is capable of rendering". Of course, all graphics accelerator vendors will be keen to make use of SSE to speed up the 3D pipeline and this improve the performance of their cards, but S3's relationship with Intel has allowed it to get ahead of its rivals, something it needs to do to recapture the marketshare it lost a while back to the likes of ATI. ®

To: Fred Fahmy who wrote (74703)	2/27/1999 10:50:00 AM
From: greenspirit	Respond to of 186894

Fred and ALL, Article...Intel links alleged Pentium flaw to software February 26, 1999 SAN FRANCISCO, Reuters : Intel Corp. said on Wednesday an alleged flaw in its new Pentium's serial number system designed to keep personal computers secure from interference by ''hackers'' was related to the chip's software, not any physical problem with the chip. Intel said it is still in talks with the German magazine, Computer Technology, which on Tuesday alleged a flaw in the software Intel provided for turning off the serial number, to determine what, if anything is wrong with its system. Intel provided an ''on-off'' system in response to privacy concerns over the issuance of serial numbers which could be used to track users in cyberspace. The German magazine said it found a way to thwart that Pentium software and void the ''on-off'' switch without a user's knowledge. ''What is at issue here is not a chip flaw. There is no flaw in the Pentium III processor with respect to the processor serial number,'' said Intel spokesman Tom Waldrop. ''What is being discussed with the German magazine is a possible software hack.'' Intel has maintained that its new serial numbers are ''an important step'' toward combating malicious hackers. At a developer's conference in Palm Springs, Calif. this week to launch the new Pentium III chips, Intel underscored the importance of creating a secure environment for Internet commerce, which it said will grow into a $1 trillion business over the next few years. The serial numbers, Waldrop said, will make personal computers ''less hackable'' and ''more secure and private.'' ''All software ultimately is hackable and today's Internet security is essentially all software and it is all hackable,'' said Waldrop. ''What we are doing today is introducing into the equation is a processor serial number that brings more of a hardware element, that's more resilient and less hackable and has more reliability.'' Waldrop said that if the software that controls the serial numbers is found to be defective, Intel will work on a ''patch'' or other software fix. But he said there have been no allegations of a defect in the chip itself. Five years ago, when the original Pentium chip was released, a flaw in the way the chip handled certain math equations led to a recall that cost Intel hundreds of millions of dollars, but the chip went on to become one of the most successful products in the history of the high-tech industry.