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To: Shane Geary who wrote (82617)	12/10/1999 2:02:00 PM
From: Charles R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571928

Shane, <Some Info on DRESDEN Capacity.> Interesting info. Could you comment on when you expect the fab to go into production? <With a 26 mask process (anyone got firmer data?) this gives a total wafer output of 1230 wafers per week.> At ~100 good Athlon pros per wafer this would mean about ~1.6M units additional capacity per quarter. If true, this would not be bad at all. Chuck

To: Shane Geary who wrote (82617)	12/10/1999 6:29:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571928

Shane, re:<With a 26 mask process (anyone got firmer data?) this gives a total wafer output of 1230 wafers per week.> Thanks for the data -- 1000 wafers/week (plus engineering runs) is about what I think AMD normally starts out a new process with. With 40% startup yield, that should get them about 100K CPU's a week or 1.3M a quarter right out of the gate. Petz

To: Shane Geary who wrote (82617)	12/10/1999 11:29:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 1571928

Shane - Re: "PS Also, a couple of months ago I got word that AMD did have a copper contamination 'event', but got no sense of the magnitude." Thank You for the CONFIRMATION ! Paul

To: Shane Geary who wrote (82617)	12/11/1999 12:18:00 PM
From: Kenith Lee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571928

Shane, I have been told that there are only a "tiny" pool of U.S. employees had spent time in Fab 30. This is the rules of the German when the contracts were made. So any information you just got can be traced. Unlike Intel who continues to let its employees to post and bash the competitors, AMD will not tolerate information leaks and have "punished" its employees in the past. Who whoever told you is either playing you for fool or is leaving. This is the reason we have not seen anyone from AMD posted here.