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To: mz001 who wrote (691)	7/10/1996 9:10:00 PM
From: Terje Oseberg	of 1586434

Well, I just wanted to make sure that FAB 25 was being used. It sounded, from some other posts, like it was sitting itle. But from your information, it must be pretty bussy. But for only 200k chips sold, they must be storing alot of chips. I wonder if they have an OEM, and they are getting ready to supply them. Anyways, IBM is only supplying a .35u process for Cyrix, and the .25u process of AMD might be more profitable if it was possible to use it. Of course the reason that IBM is only suplying the .35u process might be that Cyrix hasn't gotten things ready for the .25 process yet. But the fact that Cyrix makes a 150MHz chip at .35u means that at .25 it should go faster and be much more profitable than the 100Mhz chip that AMD is producing. It might be just a little more profitable than the K5. Also, with only 200k K5's sold, and the same # of 6x86's, and #s ramping up, maybe it would be easier to keep the FAB fully utilized for a while if it did both. Is it possible to have a fab producing two chips at the same time? I think it should be. Just some more of my crazy ideas. Terje

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