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To: Dan3 who wrote (79042)	11/8/1999 8:20:00 PM
From: Elmer	Respond to of 1573541

Re: "I've seen that posted - can't remember where. But it wouldn't be too surprising, would it? Doesn't Intel have other FABs that are dedicated to producing chipsets, comm chips, .25 celerons, etc.? Is there much besides CPUs and DRAM (and Intel is long out of the DRAM business) that currently needs .18 in large volume? AMD is pretty much dedicating 2 FABs to the goal of 30% of the market - surely 4 FABs isn't too many for the goal of 90% of the market?" I will take a stab at this one but you will probably get a better answer from PB or Paul. First, I don't think Intel has any dedicated .18u fabs, except maybe the development fabs, so they all run the latest as well as a second generation process, and some maybe a third. To my knowledge, only CPUs use the latest process except for maybe the SRAMs for Xeons needed the fastest process as well. BTW, Intel's goal is 100% of the market. EP