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Technology Stocks : Applied Materials No-Politics Thread (AMAT) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: BWAC who wrote (15990)	9/16/2005 12:10:42 PM
From: Big Bucks	Respond to of 25522

BWAC- good question...a possible answer is that it is still less expensive to purchase older, but still viable, chip technology because it is still cheaper than newer technology chips. An example, why would someone making doorbell amplifiers need sub 0.13uM devices when their designs work perfectly using 0.6uM devices at 1/3 the cost of newer technology? As long as the demand for older legacy style chips is there, at a cheaper cost, there will be fabs making product and customers using them. I would dare say that there are still legacy chips being made at 2uM geometries that serve a niche market.