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To: gugie who wrote (24756)12/9/2010 2:26:42 PM
From: FJB  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 25522
 
Thanks for your thoughts. I am going to repost on SanDisk board as many people are perplexed by this. I was always under the impression that there was redundant power at fabs. You are talking $ hundreds of millions in product if it is 20%.



To: gugie who wrote (24756)12/9/2010 7:26:12 PM
From: etchmeister  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 25522
 
Our critical tools were on an internal UPS circuit.

It's like an emergency pace maker isn't it? - so the tools don't loose their heart beat during a power glitch.
Also everything is nowadays single wafer processing which should reduce loss compared to batch processing.
I would say there is a difference between an outage and a glitch - every fab should have back up generators.


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