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To: dumbmoney who wrote (33683)	5/19/1998 2:14:00 AM
From: David C. Burns	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 53903

Are these a variation on the RFID bag tags? Post Office Testing Radio Tags WASHINGTON (AP) - Postal Service officials are testing a simple concept for tracking late letters - sending tiny radio transmitters through the mail. The devices were tested in Houston, San Francisco and northern Virginia and now are being tried on a broader basis. They allow postal managers to track specific pieces of mail moving through the system. "Preliminary reports from our field managers indicate that tracking the mail (with radio tags) may be the key to uncovering bottlenecks in our system that could consequently improve service in all classes of mail," the postal vice president said.

To: dumbmoney who wrote (33683)	5/19/1998 10:42:00 AM
From: Ed Beers	Respond to of 53903

>I thought MU was using the same DRAM design/process for 16mb and 64mb? Or are you referring to the industry as a whole? Given that the parts are built using the same process and design rules, yield is a function of die size. The percent of yield fallout increases exponentially as a function of die size. You can play some games by added redundant memory and using lasers to fix things. A process that can make 16Mbit parts with good yield may not yield many 64Mbit parts. We don't know the current yield for 64Mbit parts.