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Originally Posted by imthatguy  That's interesting news. I have to say that the FDL's I have look great and the QC was very good. I'm puzzled.  |
My guess would be that it took a lot more chips to get the number of customer-ready (read high-quality) chips using the FDL mold than it does with say the HH or A mold. I think this was an issue with the roman mold as well. For example (random numbers here, I don't have any hard facts, just guessing), to get a 1,000 chip order for a customer, it might take ASM pressing 1100 chips to get 1000 chips that they consider good quality and ready for the customer.
With the FDL mold, it might take 1300 chips pressed to get 1000 customer-quality chips. In both cases the customer is getting 1000 top-notch, high-quality chips (I'd expect nothing less from ASM), but the QC rate on one chip mold is much worse than on the other mold, and therefore much more expensive for ASM to produce.
