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To: Elmer who wrote (98262)	3/13/2000 2:12:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580703

RE:"AMD has an empty Fab." Are you saying that Dresden is empty? Have you been inside? It's just a big empty building? <G> Jim

To: Elmer who wrote (98262)	3/13/2000 4:19:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580703

Elmer, Intel has filled their fab with virtual parts....parts that go all the way through the fab and yet when they see the light of day are as evanescent as moon beams at high noon. I refer to the botched gates, of course, gates that cannot run above 60 degrees C lest they turn into electron sieves and start to talk data out of turn. And into the recycle bin go another million dice as they try frantically to get a tight enough quality control on this very random procedure that they can actually ship some fast parts. The smaller they make the gates with deeper notches the larger the lekage current and the thermal electron penetration problem. Does this kind of problem follow an SB formula? a function of the absolute temp raised to the fourth power? or just a normal electron tunneling formula where a 10 degree increase in the absolute temperature doubles the problem? Soon they will want to sell frozen parts. This problem seems to be highly intractable. All the fabs are crankin at full speed and never a part to be seen. In fact this may be an insoluble problem and we will get bafflegab abd obfuscation until they get the next generation out the door....if they survive that long. Bill