ATI design guy interview!

Zitat

Zardon: Are there any stages after the physical design and driver development?

Eric: Well, there are quite a few stages. A fabrication house will manufacturer silicon wafers, with hundreds of dies on them. The process involved in that creation is complex. But once it’s done, wafer “sorting” is next. In that process, each die is tested and we mark each die with a “all passing”, or "dead". The dead ones are discarded. The remaining ones are all packaged, into the chip packages. They are then tested again, in a different tester, and the same three results occur (all good, ½ good, bad). Again, the bad ones are discarded (it’s a very low amount on this sort). The ½ passing dies will end up in the 9500 products, while any 100% passing die will end up in the 9700/9800 products.

http://www.driverheaven.net/ericdemers/

n-joy

mist hab nur eine 9500pro.

inwiefern wirkt sich das aus wenn ein die jetz ned gut is? das kann sich ja ned nur in geschwindigkeit auswirken oder? oder leiten die nicht so gut und deswegen braucht man mehr spannung und d.h. weniger takt