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No, they ship failed units all day every day. Someone will chime in with more accurate numbers, but the typical yield for making silicon dice is like 70-90%. Yo
by mystified5016 2y ago
No, they ship failed units all day every day. Someone will chime in with more accurate numbers, but the typical yield for making silicon dice is like 70-90%. You will always have some failures in a run, it's unavoidable.
So that those chips aren't entirely wasted, all IC manufacturers bin where possible. If 2GB out of your 8GB flash chip are bad, you don't just eat that cost, you sell it as a 4GB chip.
Everyone does this all the time in every market segment. Silicon manufacturing is simply an imperfect process. The only logical thing to do is try to sell defect chips as a different product that works around the defects.