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AMD's Dresden fab is reason for delays
From the Inquirer, so take it with a grain of salt:
AMD's Dresden fab is reason for delays
Trouble at the chip mill

I remember when I was working on a Process that was trying to sqeeze every last little bit of performance out of a design on an old process, because the New One wasn't ready.

We had to limit ourselves to the 1 Best performing Litho Stepper, and even then, Etch was meeting with Litho twice per day to review the Steppers Focus/Exposure data vs. the Post Etch "Critical Dimension Data", to retarget the Stepper. It was a Huge amount of labor and tool downtime, and even then, the Bin-1 (Highest Speed) Yields were..... less than desireable.

Pure speculation of course, but I wonder if the same thing is happening at AMD?

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