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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Elmer who wrote (77817)10/29/1999 5:16:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr  Read Replies (3) of 1573599
 
Elmer - RE: "What Intel actually said was they won't be using copper until at least .13u."

So maybe they will start using copper in the middle of their .13's life or with whatever comes after .13 (.10/.09?). Maybe they will make their future fabs which will be able to use 300mm wafers to also be built to handle copper.

Here is some info I found about Intel and .13/300mm -

""Fab 16" won't come online until 2002, when it will produce chips on 300mm wafers in the advanced 0.13 micron process, an Intel spokesman said."

Fab 16 in Fort Worth, TX was supposed to open up THIS year, according to this News.com article. Chalk up another missed schedule for Intel in 1999.

Ironically, this was also in the article -

"In October, Intel said it would push back to 2000 the Fort Worth opening because it estimated that demand for flash memory chips would not require the full capacity of a Kiryat Gat, Israel, plant that's due to open in 1999. Originally designed to produce only flash memory, the Kiryat Gat plant is now scheduled to make both microprocessors and flash memory chips."

It's amazing how much things have changed.

news.cnet.com.

"And Intel's Israeli fab is now open and pumping out CuMines."

Thanks for that info. The reason for lack of them may be because a HUGE CU-Never-Mind shipment got lost on the way to the US. ;)))

Cu-Never-Mind is still not at Pricewatch.
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