From: Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 04:21:44 +0800
To: cypherpunks@ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Subject: Re: In God We Antitrust, from the Netly News (fwd)
Message-ID: <199801092045.OAA10031@einstein.ssz.com>
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> Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 12:11:44 -0800
> From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
> 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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