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To: Paul Engel who wrote (48847)	7/24/2001 9:01:39 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Re:AMD's attempt at SOI has more pit falls than you can shake a stick at - EXPENSIVE new equipment - SLOW throughput - new device models required for design - silicon damage and leakage... I remember all your posts about how copper at Dresden was too expensive and would cause contamination problems and delay AMD's transition to .18. But AMD did it anyway. It took 6 extra months to do .18 on copper, but it put AMD in the process lead for 18 months. Now the same thing is happening again. Intel rushes a relatively simple, cheap, and easy implementation of .13 out. 6 months later AMD fields a much higher performing .13 process and leads Intel for the following 18 months. It's this pattern that has enabled AMD to gain so much market share from Intel.