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To: Ian@SI who wrote (31353)	7/11/1999 3:35:00 PM
From: Math Junkie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

<<Murphy also is unhappy with the reliability of current tools. "My Honda can go for five years without a major failure and [the chip gear vendors'] darn equipment should be able to go 500 or 1,000 hours without failure too," he declares. "Some suppliers said it couldn't be done, but we have proven to them in many cases it can.">> Hmmm...Someone needs to explain to Mr. Murphy the difference between low volume and high volume production, e.g., that Honda can afford to throw a lot more engineering talent at reliability problems because the engineering cost will be divided by a LOT more units! I'm not saying that semiconductor equipment can't be made more reliable, and in fact strides have been made in that area, but this guy's notion that he should be able to get these improvements for free simply "does not compute".