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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (88578)9/21/1999 3:03:00 PM
From: Paul Engel  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
Jackson - re: 'If flash can be started in a reasonable time it would be beneficial. "

FLASH technology CANNOT be started in an "AMD REASONABLE TIME".

Flash requires extensive control of tunneling gate oxides, and in the case of AMD, they use a dual poly stacked gate structure with erasure through a negative bias to the top gate. The interpoly dielectrics are extremely tricky.

AMD has built Fab 25 and Fab 30 as LOGIC FABS - and that is what they are stuck with - unless they want to spend about a year re-tooling them for Flash.

I'm sure that would make Intel roll over and LAUGH !

Paul
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