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To: chic_hearne who wrote (22092)	9/27/2000 10:12:41 AM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

<Name one fab that will be .13um anytime in 2001> You don't use a whole fab for a pilot do you?? DAK

To: chic_hearne who wrote (22092)	9/27/2000 3:40:14 PM
From: XBrit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Hi chic. When I say "volume", I mean "first commercial parts", and typically one or two lines not entire fabs. Doesn't imply that 0.13u will be the mainstream at any semi company until 2002 probably. Sorry for any confusion. With this definition, random names that fit are Motorola, NEC, TSMC. Those are ASIC processes, not microprocessor. But the move to early commercial production is pretty widespread. Most of them seem to be going to Cu and/or low-k dielectrics for the 0.13u node. I don't follow the processor world so closely, but it surprises me if Intel isn't planning to produce some Pentium IV (that's the latest number right?) chips with 0.13 next year, if only to fix the performance problem, eh?