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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (8359)	7/21/2002 1:03:21 PM
From: NightOwl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14464

That is true, as they start to hit the wall around 0.10 then FRAM can catch up. bill Ahhhhh! Bill J! I see we have another observer of the BIG picture. Welcome to our humble establishment.<g> And a most interesting point you raise. For the last year I myself have been anxiously awaiting developments which will bring FRAM into a mainstream market and the march towards 0.10 and below appears to be one of the principle requirements. We have always been lacking in funds for process development and have had to rely on the "kindness of strangers." Until IFX came along things were looking pretty "dice-e." But now, with NEC and TXN joining, Toshiba/IFX, Fujitsu, Rohm and Samsung as licensees with active process development programs it would appear that enough moola is being spread on our "Thin Film" to get the job done. I figure that as soon as we get MU to sign up, all Hell will break loose around here. ...Hellx2 and Hellx3 will have to await the arrival of INTC and AMD, but one Hell at a time I always say. <vbg> I continue to marvel at the fact that while the industry has always "liked" the notion of truly nonvolatile memory; they have never been willing to "pay" to make it so long as they could glom together some semi-volatile, molasses r/w cycled, battery packing, el cheapo IC's that could get the job done. Under 0.10 their backs are too the wall. <Hoo Hoo> Yet I am still torn. Was it the sub 0.10 design rules? Or the market need for a cheaper way to bed-down RF/Logic Friendly memory on a SoC die before it's cast? INTC is insisting that they will "sleep" with their Flash in the pan. ...But I believe they will have to put far too many "Masks" on that pig to make whoopie. <g> 0\|0