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To: Gopher Broke who wrote (39030)	5/11/2001 8:39:28 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Respond to of 275872

But Jerry did state that IBM engineers were involved with the redesign work necessary to port to the IBM SOI process. I must admit I was surprised to read that. Well, that does makes sense. Any time you take an existing design (AMD) and redesign it to a new set of unfamiliar design rules (IBM), there invariably will be questions. To that extent, IBM engineers would be involved to answer any questions and resolve any issues. I would expect device and circuit designers, modeling folk, and process integration people to possibly confer. For instance, AMD may request a waiver from a particular IBM groundrule that my allow them to not have to do a significant amount of redesign. IBM process engineers would review the request, explain the possible consequences and either grant the waiver or not. But, IBM engineers would not be directly involved in the actual redesign. That would be entirely up to AMD. THE WATSONYOUTH