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To: gbh who wrote (64394)	7/11/1999 7:17:00 PM
From: shrinks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

What does price have to do with where the process technology, if you are using that as a base then Intel must be several generation's behind the process leaders based on the what they are selling P3's at. Samsung has been in volume production of .18um 256M SDRAM's since March, LSI announced 18 months ago their G12 .18um process, it is not copper but still puts them ahead of Intel. TSMC and UMC have .18um processes qualified and ready for customers. Again Intel has never had any reason to have a top notch process and they still dont. The one thing Intel probally does better than anyone is transfer and run the identical process in multiple fab's, but in IMO this is what slows them down from being more aggressive. If you have worked in Process Integration you know that when you have to introduce processes that have to be robust to work in multiple sites the process tends to be conservative. Also it has been my experience that when the flow is one way like it tends to be at Intel, ideas generated by the sustaining engineers that could push the process harder nave a difficult time getting out to the other fab's.