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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Isonics Corp. ISON
ISON 0.00010000.0%Nov 6 4:00 PM EST

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To: William T. Katz who wrote (971)12/1/2000 3:35:50 PM
From: Joe NYC  Read Replies (2) of 1099
 
Bill,

If someone like AMD wants to make their Palomino chip with pure Si-28, how many chips does that equate to. And would it be easy to use pure Si-28 for some small % of CPUs and switch over to regular Si wafers for rest?

If there is any truth to the speculation, and AMD uses ISON wafers for Palomino, they would use it in their Dresden fab, which, when fully equipped will have a capacity of about 5,500 wafers per week, or about 250K per year.

But the facility is now at somewhere between 1/3 and 1/2 the max capacity.

As far as whether AMD could use some ISON wafers and some regular, I have no idea how interchangeable the wafers are. I guess the need would be for the highest performance parts and for mobile parts.

Joe
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