floofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago"Ousted" Intel CEO Steps In To Defend The Firm's 18A Process, Says Yield Rate % Isn't The Right Metric To Measure Semiconductor Progresswccftech.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up197arrow-down13
arrow-up194arrow-down1external-link"Ousted" Intel CEO Steps In To Defend The Firm's 18A Process, Says Yield Rate % Isn't The Right Metric To Measure Semiconductor Progresswccftech.comfloofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square10fedilink
minus-squareBrkdncr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 months ago Gelsinger replied to a post by a prominent analyst, Patrick Moorhead, where it was initially claimed that Intel’s 18A wasn’t tested on a PDK 1.0 but rather an older design kit, which is why the yield rate figures are reported so low.