Replies to post #26727 on Intel Corp (INTC)

[chipguy]

That's for a production process. For an experimental
process in development they will go much slower, doing
measurments and checks at every step of the way.

[wbmw]

Re: Isn't it three months from wafer start to packaged product (meaning less than that just from wafer start to wafer finish)?

Tape out is fairly close to wafer start, probably the space of a week, depending on how you define the actual "tape out". And January was 3 months ago, so when you do the math, your statement seems to coincide with mine.