Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Philip Machanick
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1996 16:56

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In article <bouldin-0104961111580001@dafs.nist.gov>, bouldin@enh.nist.gov
(Charles Bouldin) wrote:

> Maybe. You forgot YIELD. Nobody knows the relative yields on 604 vs P5.
> Conventional wisdom is that yields are supposed to be higher on RISC
> chips?

Yield depends on die area, process technology -- a lot of things. If all
else is equal, the smaller chip will have a higher yield.
-- 
Philip Machanick             Department of Computer Science
University of the Witwatersrand,   2050 Wits,  South Africa
phone 27(11)716-3309                     fax 27(11)339-7965
http://www.cs.wits.ac.za/~philip/       philip@cs.wits.ac.za

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From: philip@cs.wits.ac.za (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: 6 Apr 1996 16:56:46 GMT
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