The team's phase-gate criteria include yield, defects, and performance, and a technology must meet them to advance to the next stage of the process.

“And there's yield criteria, defect criteria, performance criteria, and we need to hit those in order to move to the next set of the flow. And if there's something that doesn't make that, then it misses that And it goes on to the next technology, and we focus on the, the items that are ready and we can run and put into a process.”