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To: gnuman who wrote (31694)	4/10/1998 7:04:00 PM
From: Maverick	Respond to of 1571423

Vantis and USC Enter Into Foundry Agreement SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 1998--Vantis, an AMD company, today announced that it has entered into a five-year agreement with United Semiconductor Corporation (USC), a UMC Group Company located in Taiwan, for wafer manufacturing services. USC will use the 0.25-micron (0.18-Leff), VHC8 process technology, to manufacture the VF1(tm) high performance FPGA product family for Vantis. Additionally, this agreement will cover other technologies for future Vantis products. Through its long-term agreement with AMD, Vantis will continue to manufacture its MACH(R) CPLDs in AMD fabs. ''This agreement helps Vantis diversify its production options and allows us to get the best of both worlds by using both AMD and USC,'' said Frank Barone, chief operating officer of Vantis. ''We are very pleased to be working with USC's leading-edge process technology.'' USC's current capacity is approximately 30,000 wafer-outs per month. In July USC expects this number to increase to 37,000 per month. ''AMD and UMC have enjoyed a long-standing business relationship in non-volatile and logic technology,'' said Don Brooks, chief executive officer of International Operations for UMC. ''We are excited to extend this relationship now into the programmable products area providing services for Vantis' advanced technologies. ''The combination of Vantis' highly innovative architectures and our many years of manufacturing expertise will allow Vantis to provide its customers with a large volume of high-performance, cost-effective solutions.''

To: gnuman who wrote (31694)	4/11/1998 10:10:00 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571423

Gene, From that article... RE: "In the next two years, Pentium II-compatible computers are expected to make up the lion's share of the PC market." Why is everyone so sure of this? Jim