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To: crazyoldman who wrote (113254)	5/29/2000 8:09:00 PM
From: chic_hearne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573682

Can one of you Germans translate this? heise.de TIA, chic

To: crazyoldman who wrote (113254)	5/29/2000 8:52:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573682

Re: "Jerry also said of building a new fab plant: "It's like having and elephant". Since an elephant's gestation period is about two years, "You start and two years later you see what you've got". How Jerry convinced the Board of Directors two years ago to start Dresden I'll never know, part intuition, part genius, and part luck I suppose. " Reality check. Make that over 3 1/2 years not 2 years. amd.com "Construction on AMD's first European manufacturing facility, Fab 30, began in late 1996" This is an extremely long time to bring a fab online and BTW, it is actually smaller than the Fab25 in Austin in terms of clean room space. EP