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To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (32781)	5/18/1998 4:13:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 1571782

Kevin - Re: "the depreciation "expense" for producing those .35u SRAMs will be the same as it was when .35u was state of the art and the fab/line was producing CPUs." The depreciation is spread across ALL PRODUCTS manufactured on a process line. By running higher volumes of wafers- CPUs + SRAMS+ Chip Sets - the depreciation/wafer is reduced. Further, since the depreciation on many of these lines began in 1994/1995 time frames, the fabs will be fully depreciated within a year or two - assuming 5 year/straight line depreciation. Paul