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[Elmer Phud]

Spokeshave -

Rumors and misunderstanding. A good example of how clueless these people are is the part about 70% yields for Willameete.

The paper claims that P4 was meant to be built using new machines which weren't delivered on time and the old steppers aren't really up to the task with yields of 70 per cent on the P4 compared with 80 per cent for Pentium III parts.

It suggests that's a bad thing. In fact 70% yield for a die that large would be fantastic and I'm quite certain nobody in the world is getting that, at least not in production. I would have thought you'd see that instead of posting it to support your statement. It does exactly the opposite. It proves the author doesn't know what he is talking about.

The other quotes are "sources suggesting" or mistaking binsplit for yield or the very early days of CuMine.

BTW, you left out this part from one of your quotes. It clarifies one unsubstantiated claim to be referring to a single line. Not volume production.

This is most likely what Intel has done: sacrificed one of their production lines to produce, relatively speaking, tiny amounts of low-yielding 1 GHz PIII Coppermines.


The part about the 1.13GHz recall was only a few 100s of units and clearly a binsplit rather than yield problem as well. None of these articles support your claim.

EP