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[โ€“] dinckelman@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

If yield rates aren't a good metric, what does he think is then? It's certainly not layoff numbers, or C-suite compensation.

If after all that investment you're only able to produce TEN PERCENT of the product successfully, that's a failure, by definition. Even if they quintuple the yields, that's still incredibly poor

[โ€“] GorgeousWalrus@feddit.org 9 points 1 week ago

Yield over die area should be the metric.

If you have a chip that is 50% of the wafer area, a single fault will lead to a yield of 50%. Now compare it with a chip that is 1% of the wafer area, the same single fault gets a yield of 99%.

So comparing the yields of two processes without factoring in the die area is not a fair game.

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