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To: Thomas M. who wrote (49731)	3/5/1998 1:56:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

With idiotic comments like the following from Micro Design Resources, Intel still has room to fall: Intel also stands to benefit this year from a broad production shift to factories producing circuitry at 0.25 microns from those using 0.35 micron tools. That change alone could cut manufacturing costs by 60% by year end, according to Micro Design Resources. That would moderate the gross margin problem. The 60% estimate is totally WACKO, because the Intel die sizes are only reducing by 40% or less, the production process for the 0.25 chips is more lengthy (5 layers instead of 4), and the production process is less mature, so yields will be lower. fnews.yahoo.com (the original source of the 60% baloney was apparently Micro Design Resources) Petz