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To: niceguy767 who wrote (81263)	11/28/1999 4:10:00 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572946

RE <<<Engineering isn't my major, but if memory serves me correct, the 5000 wafers per week translates into about 6 million microprocessors per month assuming 100% yield. Of course yields will not be 100%. I think it is safe to assume yields between 30% and 60%. At 30%, you're lookinhg at 2 million microprocessors per month or close to 25 million per year.>>> niceguy, please excuse my checking on the numbers but stock trading is my background as opposed to wafer/chip tech. Whereas the number of wafers per year were undercounted, I think you are overestimating the number of cpu's that can come off of a wafer. I think the number of chips produced will be much less than 2 mil per month. Again I will leave answering this question to the others who know more about this issue. ted