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To: niceguy767 who wrote (91265)	2/3/2000 9:48:00 AM
From: milo_morai	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575341

OT:11:18 AM ET 02/02/00 Intel to buy Rockwell chip plant, to invest $1.5 bln SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb 2 (Reuters) - Intel Corp. plans to buy a chip making plant from Rockwell International Corp. and invest $1.5 billion in it, in a move Intel sees significantly boosting its short-term manufacturing capacity. Intel, the world's biggest chip maker, expects to begin manufacturing flash memory at the Colorado Springs, Colo. wafer fabrication facility by late this year. The facility is currently vacant. The company said it has signed a letter of intent with Rockwell, but did not disclose details of the agreement. "This facility will give us the ability to rapidly add more manufacturing capacity in order to address our customers' growing demand for a wide variety of our products," said Mike Splinter of Intel's Technology and Manufacturing Group. The Colorado Springs facility consists of two wafer "fabs" and several support buildings. The first, a 268,000 square foot manufacturing and support facility, was built in the early 1980s and will be converted into a sort and test facility. The second was built in 1996 but never utilized. It is a 676,000 square foot facility that will be equipped to manufacture flash memory and logic components used in a wide variety of communications, networking and computer equipment. Intel plans to install its 0.18-micron manufacturing technology in the plant. The plant will result in the creation of more than a thousand new jobs in Colorado Springs, Intel said. ((-- New York Newsdesk, 212-859-1893)) Allot of fab move lately after the Texas fiasco Milo

To: niceguy767 who wrote (91265)	2/3/2000 10:14:00 AM
From: niceguy767	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575341

Hi milo: Probably is flash...They did just sign a big deal with Ericson, I believe... (I think they'd sort out microprocessor production problems prior to committing to an empty microprocesor fab...although with some of the peculiar recent decision making by Intel, nothing would really surprise me!)

To: niceguy767 who wrote (91265)	2/3/2000 8:50:00 PM
From: Charles R	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575341

<Fram AMDzone.com: "JC has some inside info from a source at AMD about what speed AMD could be pumping out Athlons at. Here's the juice: "Fab 25 could ship 1 GHZ parts at any time the marketing department wants to introduce them (note, these are not Cu, but Al interconnects!). Currently there is no incentive for AMD to do this because Intel is falling all over themselves trying (and failing) to meet 800 MHZ demand". > Well, couldn't be! Paul says 900MHz is it on Al and Cu! It is interesting to see that Intel has "samples" at 1G+ and AMD is "yielding" at 1G+ and suddenly people think that Intel is ahead! P.S.: May be AMD marketing has to learn to play the game a little better.