Term · Business & Market
A0 silicon
The first fabricated revision of a new design, used for bring-up and bug discovery. Subsequent revisions are labelled A1, A2 for metal-only fixes and B0 for a change to the base layers.
- Also known as
- A0 stepping, First silicon
- Type
- Term
- Domain
- Business & Market, Product lifecycle
Notes
Shipping A0 to production is rare and is treated as a significant engineering achievement.
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