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To: tejek who wrote (126430)	10/18/2000 1:52:06 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 1580018

Ted, I'm sure you're right that Intel got a big subsidy to locate in Gaza. Which traces back to U.S. taxpayers, in the fungible money sense anyway. As for why, I think the P4 inherited the Timna line, which in turn may have been all that Intel had available for super-size chips. I assume that the 1 or 2 steppers in the world story makes some sense in terms of handling really big chips, vs. Intel's normal production, but I don't know. By the time it got to production setup, Timna probably wasn't considered important enough to worry about. Cheers, Dan.