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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (96692)	3/3/2000 10:51:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (3) of 1575192

Re: "There is no doubt that AMD expanded into the parts vacuum left by Intel. Intel made so many bad parts there was a shortage of good parts and AMD entered that niche. Do not forget the sea of chip set parts that had to be destroyed....all of those took fab space and yielded only costs as well as displacing CPUs from that space. If Intel had made good CPUs in all the fabs there would have been no shortage at all" Bill this is nonsense. Intel has had world class yields for as long as anyone can remember. They still do even for CuMine despite the fantasy here in AMD land. The number of wafers burned in turning a few steppings is a drop in the ocean. A new stepping might product 25-50 wafers for checkout. What's that for a fab that does 10,000 wafers a week out of 12-15 fabs? No "sea of chipset parts" ever had to be scrapped. And if Intel had made CPU's in place of all those other products running in Intel's fabs the world wouldn't have many of the microcontrolles, Flash memory devices, communications devices, working chipsets etc etc that they also crave. Re: "There is a big story behind this that may get printed one fine day" Why don't you post it now? EP

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