Itanium 2 slimms down
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on June 12, 2002 at 2:51:03 PM
But it is still over 400mm^2!!
Large chips cost more to make because fewer can be carved out of a single silicon wafer. Yields--the number of good chips produced from a wafer--also typically decline as chip size increases because of a greater potential for defects, according to analysts. No wonder they are so expensive
.
Large chips cost more to make because fewer can be carved out of a single silicon wafer. Yields--the number of good chips produced from a wafer--also typically decline as chip size increases because of a greater potential for defects, according to analysts. No wonder they are so expensive
.