Benchmarking Progress
• 29 wafer fabs studied to date:
Hyundai and Samsung in Korea
NEC, Oki, LSI Logic, Toshiba and Tohoku in Japan
AMD, Cypress, DEC, Delco, Harris, IBM, Intel, LSI Logic, Lucent, Motorola, NSC, Sony, Sony/AMD and TI (2) in USA
DEC, ITT, Lucent and NSC (2) in Europe
Most fabs are 6-inch lines of 1985 - 1992 vintage (6 fabs are 5-inch lines and 2 are 4-inch lines)