Intel Corp (INTC)

[SemiconEng]

Also.....

http://biz.yahoo.com/ibd/040624/tech_1.html
IBD: The next version of Itanium will have more than 1 billion transistors. How will you get a good manufacturing yield on such an intricate chip?
We're not going to do anything specific to get yields up, other than the stuff we've always done. We drive defect densities down. It's standard operating procedure for us......


I think what he really meant to say, is that intel has the most wonderful marvelous, brilliant, dazzling, innovative, and not to mention, good looking..... Manufacturing Process Engineers, who will no doubt do their normal outstanding, superb, overachieving, fabulous job of driving down defects..... as well as accomplishing the tousands of other small tasks they execute flawlessly every day.

I'm just guessing