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To: StockMan who wrote (4761)	3/5/1998 4:04:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 6843

Re: "AMD is also showing progress in producing chips according to the more efficient and profitable 0.25 micron manufacturing process" I believe this sentence as referring to the number of .25u wafer starts at Fab 25 as a percentage of the total. After all, we know with mathematical certainty that you can't fit 340 dies on one wafer at .35u, don't we? Here are the relevant paragraghs so you can reread them: "Earlier in the quarter, the company was able to isolate, and fix, one of the major manufacturing flaws with the K6. Last fall, yields on some K6 processors were as low as 20 percent, but now yields per wafer have jumped up to 160 chips out of a possible 340 per silicon wafer, or almost 50 percent. While improvement is still needed, the yield ratio is far higher than it was a few months ago. "50 percent is definitely a good starting point," Kumar said. AMD is also showing progress in producing chips according to the more efficient and profitable 0.25 micron manufacturing process. Currently, about 1,000 of the 3,000 wafers started each week at its "Fab 25" plant in Austin, Texas, are made under the 0.25 micron process, he said." Kevin