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Hey, at least Jobs dumped IBM:

http://news.com.com/2061-10791_3-6094076.html

Cell processor yields looking dismal

July 13, 2006 5:11 PM PDT

IBM appears to be having a tough time making a sufficient number of working copies of its Cell processor, perhaps causing further problems for Sony's PlayStation 3.

IBM Vice President of Semiconductor and Technology Services Tom Reeves was quoted in an article on Electronic News last week saying that initial yields for the Cell chip are somewhere between 10 percent to 20 percent. The company thinks it can improve that with logic redundancy techniques, but even 20 percent to 40 percent is still a shocking number in the world of high-volume chip manufacturing.

[More at link.]