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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (71384)	2/10/2002 9:43:55 PM
From: niceguy767	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Bill: "Well, what if Intel with that ovonics memory is able to stave off Moore's law for a few years? Can the cel formation methods go over to CPU building?" Like in Intelovonics??? "At least ovonics will license to all, but Intel may have a jump on AMD." Yep...probably flood the market with yields that are going to the moon!!!

To: Bill Jackson who wrote (71384)	2/11/2002 12:08:54 AM
From: tcmay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

"Well, what if Intel with that ovonics memory is able to stave off Moore's law for a few years? Can the cel formation methods go over to CPU building? At least ovonics will license to all, but Intel may have a jump on AMD." I assume you actually mean "continue with Moore's Law," not "stave [it] off." Intel's connection with Ovshinsky goes back to the late 60s, when it fabbed some of the ovonic devices for him. Doubtful in the extreme that the recent work on memories carries over in any significant way to general CPU design--a useful parallel to think about is whether the very real work in EPROM or flash ever carried over in any significant way to CPUs, modulo the 8748 and similar microcontrollers I'm planning to keep tabs on this latest incarnation of ovonics, but I still remember reading while I was in high school the credulous reports on how "Ovonics" would be the Next Big Thing...and that was circa 1969, two years before I'd even heard of Intel. --Tim May