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To: Tony Viola who wrote (61958)	8/6/1998 9:17:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

Tony - Re: "Historically, Intel has introduced a new process technology on an existing product," Intel has an SRAM design team that designs new SRAMS on new processes and uses these SRAMs to debug and tune-up the new processes. Sometimes the SRAMs do not always use all the available metal layers. And except for recent Pentium Pro's and Xeons, the SRAMS may not even be sold as products. When developing a new 0.18 or 0.13 micron process, an existing chip's logic may be used, but it must be totally re-laid out to make use of the smaller feature sizes and extra metal layers - in effect, making it a "brand new chip". Paul