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To: that_crazy_doug who wrote (116004)6/15/2000 4:04:00 PM
From: niceguy767  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1578029
 
crazy doug:

Re: "it would appear to me that Intel will have both a .13 copper process and a .13 aluminum process (the copper in the new fabs and aluminum in old ones or something similar)."

Comment: All they'll need then is a processor that can be produced in retail quantities at over 700 MHz!



To: that_crazy_doug who wrote (116004)6/15/2000 4:32:00 PM
From: Elmer  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 1578029
 
Re: "it would appear to me that Intel will have both a .13 copper process and a .13 aluminum process (the copper in the new fabs and aluminum in old ones or something similar)."

Highly unlikely. Intel has a "copy exactly" manufacturing infrastructure and the idea of running two different processes across their factories in unthinkable(to them).

EP