>Samsung’s issues with yield are concerning. It’s said that the yield of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 manufactured by Samsung Foundry is 35%. What that simply means is that out of the 100 pieces that are manufactured, 65 are defective. The yield for Samsung’s own 4nm Exynos 2200 is shockingly said to be even lower than this.
It's actually slightly more worrying. The rate of improvement of the yield is poor as well unlike earlier processes. We're rapidly heading towards a dead end.
Hopefully this will put commercial pressure on better computer science, algorithms and software efficiency.
Samsung home appliances (washer, dryer, dishwasher) are also supposed to have grave reliability problems. Anyway, appliance repair people on YT say so. (Plus, LG refrigerators, maybe still.)
(My experience is that Whirlpool/Maytag appliances now all have a gratuitous circuit board with parts that reliably burn up after warranty runs out, requiring a $100-300 replacement. In my washer, the top actually blew off of a LNK305 voltage converter, exposing the chip inside, along with several traces and various other parts.)
>Samsung’s issues with yield are concerning. It’s said that the yield of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 manufactured by Samsung Foundry is 35%. What that simply means is that out of the 100 pieces that are manufactured, 65 are defective. The yield for Samsung’s own 4nm Exynos 2200 is shockingly said to be even lower than this.
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