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To: pgerassi who wrote (21798)	12/7/2000 11:16:27 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 275872

Pete, Yes if you are able to split the column with an infinitely fine knife. In reality there is as much as 1 mm cutting loss as the cutting blade must be thin yet stiff enough to cut true. My estimates were without knowledge of the density of Si, I assumed 2.7 G/cc so I ended up with a slightly higher cost. I also assumed the cut out SI is recycled through a zone furnace and stays isotopically pure and comes back again so it just has a reprocessing cost. Bill

To: pgerassi who wrote (21798)	12/7/2000 11:17:04 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

What I'd love to see from AMD... is a 3 cent per share quarterly dividend. 3 cents lets AMD beat Intel's dividend by 50% - that would be fun for Jerry. :-) Don't expect it, though. It would cost AMD less than 40 million dollars for the year, probably double the stock price overnight, and that would let them use some of those shares on the shelf to pay for the next FAB. I think the near term markets are going to value dividends the way recent markets have valued growth prospects. AMD's attraction will continue to be its growth prospects, but adding a dividend into the equation would make a big difference. Dan