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To: Profits who wrote (31753)	4/13/1998 2:15:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578531

Profits, I take the UMC foundry deal for FPGA's as a good sign. If AMD's FAB-25 production yields for the K6 didn't live up to the levels of their rocket-lot yields, they might have farmed off production to IBM, freeing up some Fab space for making the FPGA parts. But since the yields are so good, they're keeping FAB-25 strictly for CPU's, since yield really matters for profits, and using UMC for smaller die size FPGA parts, where yield is not as important. Petz