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To: derek cao who wrote (8229)	9/26/1997 6:02:00 PM
From: Rob-Chemist	of 70976

The 300 mm issue is completly different than the upgrade from 16 to 64 Mb, and I agree that completely new equipment will be needed for this. In terms of the equipment sold by AMAT and needed to go to the 0.25 æm process, most of their cutting edge equipment has had that capability for the last couple years. Thus, a state of the art Fab already has equipment capable of 0.25 æm. The 64 Mb die will initially be 4x the 16 Mb die. However, after the engineers go through a couple rounds of shrinking the design and the processes are improved, it will be much less than 4x the size of a 16 Mb die. (I should have been more accurate in my initial post, and thank you for pointing out my error.)

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