IBM claims Cell production is now going well

[Angelcurio]

IBM claims Cell production is now going well

By Dean Pullen: jueves 27 julio 2006, 17:06
THE CELL PROCESSOR is steadily being shoved out the door of IBM plants, despite reports of poor yields.

Sources have informed the Inq that IBM executives have told employees within the firm, that yields are "on or above" targets.

Yields for a large, complex part like the Cell are expected to be low at the start of production and improve steadily thereafter - if IBM had allowed for a very low yield to start with, its plausible that the rumours of bad yields were entirely accurate and this is what IBM was expecting all along.

The exec also said IBM had shipped the first full allotment to Sony under a 'take or pay' arrangement (whereby Sony has the obligation of either taking delivery of the goods or paying a specified amount), and that Sony must have "quite a stockpile of the processors in a warehouse somewhere".

Presumably the warehouse has close links to Asustek, where recently other sources released details of Asustek plans to deliver 4 million units of the PS3 console to Sony this month. µ

Link: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33310

Looks like Sony is really on track for its november launch.

 

[dodo3]

Looks like rehashed news.

 

[nonamer]

Indeed. IBM has been stating Cell yields were fine for a long time now.

 

[Acert93]

Got to give credit to the Inq's "last minute save" article to smooth over the waters they agitated!

 

[AlNom]

"quite a stockpile of the processors in a warehouse somewhere".

Where are those MS Ninjas?!

 

[zed]

4 million seems to much, i thought the aim was 6million by end mar2007, perhaps the 6million is just for childish pr, ie so they can say they exceeded their sales target

 

[Titanio]

The target is 4m by the end of the year (Asus is not due to ship 4m this month as the Inquirer reports). 6m by March. I don't think either of those figures are conservative, quite the opposite.