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To: semiconeng who wrote (81324)	6/2/2002 2:46:40 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

"The first as a Fab Tool Operator, and now twice as Engineering" Invasion of Fab technicians and "Certified Nowell engineers" is becoming very annoying on this thread. Thank you for sharing your true background with us. - Ali

To: semiconeng who wrote (81324)	6/3/2002 7:56:53 PM
From: pgerassi	Respond to of 275872

Dear Semi: As a tool pusher you do not get involved in the sellable side of the business. They tell you the product and the artwork and you make the silicon dies match the intended structure. You could be perfect, yet the dies are unsaleable at the intended price. That is not your fault, but it is for the original design decision makers, the translation of the original design to final structure by the design team, marketing making the original goals (even if the customer's said something different) and then marketing the packaged dies to others. And on top of all this is management telling you how many to make of X (maybe how many working good X). They are supposed to make money by making product that sells for more than the overall cost to the company even those hard to divide indirect costs like their salaries and benefits. And when something fails to make money, to pull the plug at the appropriate time on chip X and make the more profitable chip Y. In my opinion and the server market's, it is long past time to pull the plug on Itanium. If you have so much knowledge of that end of the business, why doesn't Intel have you in management? Pete PS: Its not "save the world", its "save your job and everyone's money".