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To: Dan3 who wrote (101628)	4/3/2000 10:45:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 1574096

Dan3, Intel has built high speed conveyors from the reject bins to the dumpsters...they can easily handle the parts rejected. Bill

To: Dan3 who wrote (101628)	4/3/2000 1:05:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574096

Dan3, re:<Intel is cranking out up to 1 million coppermines per week from each of 5 FABs> The fab Elmer (?) was bragging about is one of two megafabs which have ~10,000 wafers/week capacity. The other 3 or 4 have ~5000 w/w capacity. So total Intel capacity might be 3.5-4 million coppermines/week. But they also have to make legacy products, Xeons and chipsets, and Merced will eat up a lot of capacity. Then again, that may have been a very good week. Petz

To: Dan3 who wrote (101628)	4/3/2000 5:42:00 PM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1574096

Dear Dan3: Regarding your PS: I am beginning to suspect that they were given an award for producing the 1,000,000th CPU die that week and the banner got mistranslated into something much better. It makes more sense for the quantities showing up now. Their current run rate of good die of all 5 fabs, IMHO, is 1 million a week and that may be optimistic given the DIY picture. Supposedly they made only 31,000,000 CPUs of all kinds last quarter and that includes Pentium, Pentium II, Xeon, and Celeron. (I am assuming that does not include embedded processors or ARMs). I figure that greater than 50% were other than Coppermine. (It is very interesting that Intel does not disclose how many CPUs they made of each general type, AMD has) Pete