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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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