NVIDIA GT300 Yields Are Under 2%?

Charlie over at SemiAccurate says that, according to what he has heard, yields of NVIDIA’s GT300 are currently at 1.7%. You read that right, under two percent. So, if what Charlie is reporting is even semi-accurate, yields are extremely bad.

How many worked out of the (4 x 104) 416 candidates? Try 7. Yes, Northwood was hopelessly optimistic - Nvidia got only 7 chips back. Let me repeat that, out of 416 tries, it got 7 'good' chips back from the fab. Oh how it must yearn for the low estimate of 20%, talk about botched execution. To save you from having to find a calculator, that is (7 / 416 = .01682), rounded up, 1.7% yield.

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