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To: John F. Dowd who wrote (164619)	4/26/2002 7:11:07 AM
From: John F. Dowd	Respond to of 186894

More Interesting Stuff: ``Today they showed us how they're prepared for that recovery wave, but the waters are still running quiet and we're waiting for that wave to come,'' said David Wu, an analyst at Wedbush Morgan Securities. ``Nobody knows how quickly that wave will come or how big it will be, but the downturn has passed us.'' Semiconductor companies are forecasting modest rises in second-quarter revenue from first-quarter levels, and most executives now agree the worst is past. But the pain continues in other technology markets, particularly telecommunications. Intel will restart construction on a $2 billion chip-making plant in Ireland, bringing more chip-making capacity online as it gears up for an eventual resumption in demand for its microprocessors, executives said. Barrett said Moore's Law, the observation by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore that the number of transistors on a chip doubles roughly have every 18 months with a corresponding decrease in production costs, has another 15 years before radical new materials and production methods need to be invented. Toward the end of the decade, Barrett said, microprocessors will have 10 billion transistors, run at 30 gigahertz, or 30 billion cycles per second, will contain elements as small as 10 nanometers and can crunch 1 trillion operations per second. By comparison, Intel's fastest chip now runs at 2.4 gigahertz and has dimensions that are as small as 130 nanometers across. JFD