I'm glad you generally like the quality of my posts. I stand behind everything I posted in that one, also. That includes the Itanium manufacturing comments - the large die size and large number of transistors does cause the product to be more difficult to manufacture.
I guess it depends on what you mean by more difficult. There will certainly be less good die per wafer if that's what you mean, however are you saying that the yield will be lower still, even after considering the larger die size? If that's your claim then I'd challenge you to support that with something more than speculation.
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