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You don't make commercial chips on a shuttle run. If you sit on the same mask as somebody else, you forsake all the flexibility, and you are limited to fabs wit
by baybal2 5y ago
You don't make commercial chips on a shuttle run. If you sit on the same mask as somebody else, you forsake all the flexibility, and you are limited to fabs with own mask shops — just taking your masks, and moving to another fab with them is near impossible. Asking the fab to make just any process tweaks is similarly impossible.
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- nwiswell 5y agoI've never heard of a customer getting process tweaks for a one million die run, but then again I've got no experience with legacy fabs. Certainly the 14nm fab that Intel promised lately[1] for automotive demand would not entertain that sort of thing. [1] https://www.electronicdesign.com/markets/automotive/article/21174750/electronic-design-intel-to-commit-foundry-capacity-for-chipstarved-auto-industry https://www.electronicdesign.com/markets/automotive/article/...