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To: Ausdauer who wrote (11005)	5/12/2000 3:59:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Respond to of 60323

OT: FTC's Ruling against Record Pricing The following article discusses yesterday's FTC ruling against the MAP pricing and cooperative marketing agreements between the major record companies and dedicated music retailers: dailynews.yahoo.com Situation: Wal-Mart and other discount stores have been using CD's as loss-leaders to draw in customers to their huge stores. Small music retailers cannot compete with these large stores with their money-losing prices, despite the fact that the typical CD selection at Wal-Mart is usually limited to Top-40 and ultra-popular acts. Dedicated music stores usually carry a much broader selection of music CD's. The issue at hand was that Major record companies entered into agreements with dedicated music retailers to share in the marketing expenses used to draw in business to small record stores to compete against the Wal-Marts. As a result, CD prices climbed as the shared marketing expenses grew. The FTC stepped in and decreed that CD's were too expensive. My take on this? I want Federal Trade Commission members to write their own songs, record their own CD's with their own production $$$ money, and try to market them at whatever retail price they want to. I eagerly await to hear their "art." The thought that government can step in and tell artists and private businesses that they charge too much for their art makes me ill. But feel free to disagree with me. BTW, for you flash chip engineers, home builders, and auto makers out there, your prices are to high. I have a "Right" to your product at a lower price. I hereby insist on the Government to step in to make sure my "Rights" to lower prices for whatever items I want are ensured.

To: Ausdauer who wrote (11005)	5/12/2000 4:44:00 PM
From: Zeev Hed	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 60323

Aus, a decrease of features from .28 microns to .24 microns should increase the dice count per wafer by 36%. This is a first approximation (assuming all dimensions are decreased by the same amount). The calculation is quite simple it is the square of the ratio of the two "features size" (.28/.24)^2. In practice it is a little less than that since some dimensions cannot be decreased proportionally unless the writing voltages are decreased as well. On the other hand, smaller devices also result in a higher percentage of the circular wafer to be utilized. A safe assumption is 10% less than "theoretical" or about a 32% increase in dice per wafer. Zeev