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To: Tony Viola who wrote (59469)	10/20/2001 5:27:55 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Tony, Fab security is an issue. We know the terrorists do things we do not expect, so hitting a major fab that would cause economic repercussions is a potential item on their agenda, even if it caused no deaths. In fact they hurt their cause so much with the WTC disaster that they may select economic targets and avoid casualties in the furture. Now who would that be? Since Intel has a fab in Israel it makes them a more likely candidate than many others. What degree of security against armed incursions do the major fabs have? not much more than a badge checker I suspect, no hardening at all. Bill

To: Tony Viola who wrote (59469)	10/20/2001 6:31:11 PM
From: dumbmoney	Respond to of 275872

I would think that, as a computer guy, you'd have a worst-case mental discipline to abhor any single point of failure (SPF). If having only one place where you make all your wafers isn't an SPF, I'd like to know what is. This so-called "mental discipline" of yours seems to be nothing more than sentiment and feeling.

To: Tony Viola who wrote (59469)	10/20/2001 10:02:40 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

"I would think that, as a computer guy, you'd have a worst-case mental discipline to abhor any single point of failure (SPF)." Yep. And if an SPF is unavoidable, then a risk assessment is done. The probability of a major earthquake in Saxony would be pretty low on the list. Something like Intel's "botched transistor" process would be high. And the latter happened at more than one fab, so the fact there wasn't an SPF wasn't that big of a comfort... I think this "single fab concern" is what is known as a "Red Herring".