Itanium 2 slimms down

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Aron Schatz
Posted
June 12, 2002
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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 Smile.

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