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To: Andrew Vance who wrote (14326)	6/8/1998 8:43:00 PM
From: Backfill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17305

Andrew, I here what you are saying, and you are right! The cost of a square foot of one of America's new fabs costs about $3000.00/sq'(this is the structure I am talking about). The amount of energy used for that same square foot is ~ 250 watts continuous. When you throw in the cost of equipment, facilitation of the equipment, gases (a corrosive gas line can cost $75,000 "each" if you include the gas cabinet) and utilities needed to make the equipment useful, it is understandable that a product has to be very successful to make that company money. You simply can not make mistakes with your wafers i.e., mis-process, drop them or shake them To be able to simplify any of the above steps insures a better chance to be profitable. Jeff...