TSMC Divulges Some Yields

[AGodspeed]

Here's the link. And here's part of what was said:

Sheng, in London for TSMC's technology Symposium today, says the company is hitting an impressive 97 per cent yield on 4Mb SRAM chips built using its 1P6M 0.13 micron process; 88 per cent on the same parts fabricated using the older 1P3M process and 71 per cent for logic chips larger than 50 square millimetres.

In the light of TSMC's new policy of openness, we asked Intel if it would like to give us some indication of how its 0.13 micron processes compared - you'll be amazed and dumbfounded to discover that Chipzilla replied with a disppointing 'no comment'.

Wingz, what do you think.

 

[AGodspeed]

Guess people around here don't care about yields.

 

[Wingznut]

<< Wingz, what do you think. >>

How would you feel about yet another disppointing 'no comment'?

The problem for me is, that if I were to comment one way or another about those results, then I would be commenting about Intel's yields (in a round-about way.) Sorry, man.... But die yields is one area I won't touch with a 10-ft pole! :frown:


"We can only read into that that Intel's yields simply don't match up to those of the Taiwan outfit..."

What a sleezy comment. That sums up exactly how crappy theinquirer is, and how it should NEVER be viewed as anything but a "rumor generator".