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To: Mani1 who wrote (93105)	2/14/2000 9:49:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571281

Re: "Well "doing the math" gives you 208 Million Coppermine per year. That is more than the total numbers of CPU Intel makes from all of its fabs Combined!. What crock of sht Elmer! What a sorry display of intelligence! Run rate of ne million Coppermine per week, from one fab, NO WAY!!!. It is absurd." If you don't mind Einstein, I'll bookmark this post so I can remind you of just how much you know about manufacturing Semiconductors. Here's the math: 5,000 wafers per week 200 good per wafer = 1,000,000 good die. From 1 Fab. Ask a grownup to punch the numbers into a calculator for you. Your Mentor, Elmer

To: Mani1 who wrote (93105)	2/14/2000 10:09:00 PM
From: kash johal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571281

Mani, Re:"Fab 12" I HATE to say it but Elmers number do make sense. Fab 12 may be able to run up to 8-10K wafers/wk. So if 50% capacity is now ramped to 0.18 that could well make sense. And apparently Fab 12 was one of the first intel fabs to go P858. Now they all could be 500-700Mhz speed grades etc. And AMD has a new price cut due on 2/27 where the 550 looks like gulag material. By end of Q1 once the 900Mhz speed grades come out - I suspect the 600's will go to the Gulag as well. Interesting games between AMD/Intel. regards, Kash