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To: Mark Oliver who wrote (7103)	9/21/1999 7:16:00 AM
From: Z Analyzer	Read Replies (1) of 9256

<<They did last year, but this could have changed. It was clearly a long term goal of Hutch to make TSA with tails, but yield loss might have held them back. Eventually, I'd guess they would solve this problem. Making a tail required etching the entire stainless steel base away where the flex or tail was happening, and getting less units per panel processed because of space wasted printing tails. >> To nit-pick a little, its somewhat misleading to refer to producing tails as "yeild loss". Using additional real estate on their panels to produce fewer suspensions per panel with tails is fine if the additional selling price per suspension justifies it. I have nver heard that HTCH was not doing this profitably. Last I heard, customers were coming around to the necessity of integrated tails due to the noise caused by additional weld connections in other systems. HTCH expects the percentage of tailed suspensions to become quite high. However, several sources indicate that intergrating tails into competing CIS and CAPS suspensions is a major cost challenge to which there is no current solution. -Z

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