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To: Steve Robinett who wrote (50466)	2/2/2000 1:56:00 AM
From: DJBEINO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 53903

Micron Technology Shifts Production to Make Smaller Circuits 2/1/00 6:00:00 PM Source: Bloomberg News San Francisco, Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Micron Technology Inc., the biggest U.S. maker of computer-memory chips, has shifted 80 percent of its production starts to use new, smaller circuits. The company's operations worldwide have largely reduced the size of semiconductor circuits to 0.18 micron from 0.25 micron, 1/500th as wide as a human hair, Kipp Bedard, Micron's vice president for corporate affairs, said at the Banc of America Securities Technology Week conference. Chipmakers have gradually been increasing use of smaller circuits, which lead to faster chips that consume less power. Semiconductor-equipment makers expect chips with 0.18-micron circuits to make up 80 percent of the market this year, up from 50 percent last year and 20 percent in 1998. A micron is one- millionth of a meter. Bedard said 5 percent of Boise, Idaho-based Micron's production starts use even smaller circuits, 0.15 micron. He expects that figure to grow to 20 percent to 30 percent this summer and expand to as much as 50 percent by year's end.