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To: DJBEINO who wrote (48622)	9/24/1999 12:09:00 PM
From: AurumRabosa	Respond to of 53903

Even if a fab could withstand a 9 quake just turning the power off on process tools in mid-step will do a lot of damage. If nothing else the creation of numerous little particles that will significantly reduce die yield. "Mitsubishii Electric Corp. was instrumental in building Powerchip's fab," Ford said in a reference to the company's plant. "After the Kobe earthquake, it redesigned the fab so that it could withstand an earthquake of up to force nine." The Taiwan quake has a preliminary magnitude of 7.6. Also, who cares what the DRAM chip prices are? Nobody will buy them unless they can obtain 100% of the parts needed to assemble their boards for whatever they're building, games, PCs, cell phones, etc... Severe down drafts caused by the disruption of JIT manufacturing are the price investors must pay for New Era management thinking.