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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ali Chen who wrote (107196)	4/21/2000 2:08:00 PM
From: hmaly	Respond to of 1573867

Ali Chen ..Re,<<<<<It was very hard to plan for total failure of Coppermine-0.18 project :) :) Especially after enjoying years of no competitive pressure and liberty to define products with high yields only. Now the time is different. Hence the results. >>>>>>>>>>> Ali, I agree wholeheartedly with that statement; but I am utterly confused that Intel is denying the obvious and promoting the ridiculous. Everybody here know that Intels production capacity should have been increasing as the process went to .18. It didn't, so yields or bin splits or some other manufacturing problem seems to be causing the problem; not high demand as Intel would have us believe. But why the deception? Does Barrett really think he can silence the entire staff and turn them all into shameless hacks like Elmer spouting the company line? Does he really think it sounds better for everyone to think its demand rather than manufacturing glitches; because it would seem to me, manufacturing glitches can be fixed more easily than adding capacity. On the other hand; if it is manufacturing, when Willy comes on line and yields improve, with .13 manufacturing, Intel should have excess capacity, without any new fabs, so why is Intel concentrating on new fabs when .13 should be here well before new fabs get on line. In other words, nothing seems to make any sense over there and chaos rules.