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To: Harry Landsiedel who wrote (69626)12/8/1998 3:19:00 PM
From: Paul Engel  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
Harry - Re: "Also, won't the decision to move up the conversion to .18 micron reduce cap. spending from earlier estimates?"

No.

Intel could REALLY reduce capital expenses by NOT CONVERTING to the 0.18 micron process.

However, converting to the 0.18 micron will require some new stepper/scanners for the 0.18 micron layers, more thin film machines for the added metal and isolation layers, and possibly additional etchers and CMP equipment IF Intel wants to maintain the same number of wafers/month output in the converted fabs.

Paul
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