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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Earlie who wrote (63830)	7/2/1999 12:18:00 PM
From: Process Boy	Respond to of 132070

Earlie - <If you suspect that Intel has not had difficulties with their .18 process, I suggest that you check their recent public statements for the details. They are the ones saying it, so I suspect it might just be accurate. But to add to that, I'd also suggest that you have a beer or two with some INTC engineers and get their views.> Check my profile. That's my view. As for the rest of your questions, these have been around for years. I will answer some of them though: <The Intel folk are privately worried about the K7, especially as that new chip is aimed at INTC's remaining decent margin territory.> We will have to compete. < I'll buy into the "coppermine efficiency" bit when the chips are actually rolling off the line with a yield at test that looks better than a baseball player's batting average.> I'll be sure to check back with you on this one. :-)) <- Cyrix was just purchased (by a Taiwanese company). Is there any worries in this for Intel?> Timna, again on aforementioned very efficient process and manufacturing infrastructure. PB