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To: Ali Chen who wrote (150125)	11/28/2001 2:44:22 PM
From: fingolfen	Respond to of 186894

Process could be diverse, but Public Relations department must be unique for a company. For legal purposes first. Actually, it's not the public relations department that's always unique, but the legal department is usually of one mind. Another thing you have to remember is that Intel is largely a company made up of engineers. So long as the engineer has data to back him or her up, legal will approve the release. If at a later time another engineer comes back with more and/or different data, legal/corporate isn't going to quash it because it differs from previous data. I am not sure what exactly they are demonstrating. Was it one lucky transistor from 100,000 on a experimental wafer? I don't think it was "one transistor," but I doubt Intel taped out a special reticle for the advanced work, so there would certainly be a lot of "deads" on the wafer(s) as well. Regardless of the transistor yield, the fact is that Intel found ways to work in transistor regimes that won't reach production until ~2009 (at ~15nm). That gives Intel direct (rather than extrapolated and/or theoretical) information about the challenges at those dimensions. It makes a good press release, but more importantly, it gives Intel an important leg up in process development.