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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (90012)	1/27/2000 2:50:00 PM
From: Elmer	Respond to of 1574098

Re: "How many million Floppermines did Intel ship? Where Otellini went to school how many million do you need before you can add the "s" on million? 1.1? 1.5? 2.0? <G> You say 1.8 million(s)? From 4 FABs that's 450k per FAB? AMD got 900k from one FAB...que paso'?" I believe "millions" means at least 2. Regarding fab usage, Intel has many product lines running across their fabs. For every processor sold there is a chipset with at least 2 chips. There is some competition so lets say that for 31.9 million processors shipped, another 50 million chipset components were shipped. Those do not run on the .18u process. Throw in the microcontrollers, communications devices, automotive and other embedded devices and you're talking huge numbers of products on .25u or greater processes. All have to be supported and I believe all experienced upside demand, not to mention Flash. No doubt Intel shipped well over 100 million units in Q4 alone. Don't focus on Fabs alone because there is all the backend stuff as well. That's assembly, burnin and test. Try doing all that with complete perfection. EP