On Oct 9, 11:42*am, Telamon
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On Oct 8, 7:12*pm, Telamon
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*Rfburns wrote:
³IBiquity announces 1.5 million HD chipsets shipped.² *Wow! More B.S.

Struble, I know you read this column because I¹ve been asking you to
produce benchmarks for your bogus company for months.

Lets see now, with million and millions spent so far that makes
somewhere around $250,000 per radio/chipset. Give or take $100,000 or
so and I¹m sure your figure of 1.5 million is suspect. Like every
other statistic you produce from your fertile but screed-up
imagination.

Interesting that iBiquity announces the number of chipsests shipped,
not to confuse that with the insignificant number of receivers sold..

Hybrid digital is failing Struble but keep reading this message
board.

Struble, it must be very tiring for you to constantly find new ways to
distort the facts about your defective hybrid digital scam.

Money¹s a little tight now also. *Hope it dries up for you real soon.

That's BS. There has not been enough time to produce 1.5 million
chipsets even if production started when it was supposed too.

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Telamon
Ventura, California

Six years should be plenty of time for 1.5 million chipsets.

It has only been a few months since the HD chips were supposed to be
made. What has been used until now are general purpose DSP chips
programmed to perform the HD decoding. As such they very inefficient and
everyone has been waiting for parts specifically designed to perform
this function.

So as I said there has not been enough time.

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Telamon
Ventura, California

You can't make such a definitive statement since you don't know who
fabbed the chips. Say the test time was long, say 1 second. Allocate a
modest number of handlers, say 10. So it's effectively pumping out 10
chips a second. That's 42 hours of elapsed time. Even with one tester,
it wouldn't be much of an issue. Also, we don't know how many chips
are in the chip set, but I don't see test time as a show stopper.

How long would it take to make that many chips? You haven't stated the
die size. Figure on 0.2x0.2 inch and 50 square inches on an 8 inch
wafer, or 1250 per wafer. Figure 1000 die make it past final test.
That means 1500 wafers. A fab like TSMC could do around 50K wafers per
month, so making 1.5 millions units isn't a big deal.

I hate IBOC, but it is totally possible they shipped that many
chipsets. I recall years ago when those stupid Japanese toys that you
had to "keep alive" where shipping, much of the world wafer capacity
was dedicated to making the chips.