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To: Robert Salasidis who wrote (182691)	11/14/2005 9:41:36 AM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 186894

Robert, re: Probably for the same reason Intel got out of the DRAM market over 15 years ago or so. They probably don't want to step in that sort of cutthroat low margin business again. Probably. Intel certainly seems to have a "not invented here" attitude, for better or worse. It seems to me that they could leverage their strength, manufacturing efficiency, to other mass semiconductor categories; but I could be wrong. <And NOR flash is probably more cutthroat low margin than NAND, at least right now>. John PS BTW, it appears to be pretty easy for the DRAM/NAND manufacturers to switch the lines at will between the two commodities. And that seems to be making the marketplace a little more efficient, with fewer and less severe over capacity / under capacity situations.