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Re: In God We Antitrust, from the Netly News (fwd)
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> Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 12:11:44 -0800
> From: Tim May <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: In God We Antitrust, from the Netly News
> There have been reliable reports, from several kinds of sources, that AMD's
> Fab 25 in Austin is yielding only a handful of workingn (at speed) K6s per
> 8-inch wafer, versus well over 100 working (at full rated speed,
> importantly) Pentium IIs (and variamts) devices per 8-inch wafer. Intel is
> running at a nearly perfect yield rate (most die are functional, a very
> nice position to be in, and a very hard one to arrange).
> Intel also has about an order of magnitude more clean room space capable of
> making the Pentia (and Merced and Gunnison, etc.) than AMD has in Fab 25.
>From my contacts at AMD and personal experience working on the Semiconductor
Technology program through Austin Community College 2 years ago I would have
to agree with these claims.
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