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To: kapkan4u who wrote (82432)6/2/1999 12:51:00 AM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
Kap,

So why not silver? Is it cost?

I'm not a process guy, but from a cost point of view it seems hard to believe that the miniscule amount of metal used to wire a microprocessor would cost more than a few cents, even if the wires were made out of silver.

Scumbria
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