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To: Saturn V who wrote (133788)	5/1/2001 12:28:48 AM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Dear Saturn V: I have seen it before. Most complaint I get from bookkeepers, accountants, and officers is the overly long depreciation schedules on IT equipment by the government. You should hear the complaints. Perhaps it is in shuttered plants not yet started in production when depreciation starts as I understand AMD does it. I usually find that companies start depreciated ASAP. They rarely wait. Since Intel does not breakout depreciation on a per FAB basis, it is quite difficult to see what their policy is. In another post I did comment that "copy exact" may make the last FABs built in a process cycle depreciate even more slowly than real world is normal for FABs. Perhaps this is where the discrepancy lies. Pete