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To: Think4Yourself who wrote (28914)	8/15/1998 6:00:00 PM
From: Yousef	Respond to of 33344

Ken, Re: "Does anyone actually KNOW what is going on?? Most are guessing, and not very well." I'm sure that there are engineers/managers at NSM that KNOW what is going on ... They just don't post on SI. I would guess that almost everyone that posts on this thread has never been inside a "cleanroom". Make It So, Yousef

To: Think4Yourself who wrote (28914)	8/16/1998 1:15:00 AM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 33344

K., >>>"regarding what is going on at NSM's Portland fab. Does anyone actually KNOW what is going on??" The explanation is very simple. East Coast sand just doesn't produce Silicon that's as pure as West Coast sand does. Ask Transitron or Sylvania. The end. Actually, I wondered years ago why Fairchild built a fab in Portland ME. (National inherited it when they bought Fairchild). There isn't another semiconductor company around for hundreds (thousands?) of miles. If I'm an employee of NSM, Portland, I'd like to think there was another place or two to go to work for locally, if, for whatever reason, I had to leave. Oh, there's IBM in Vermont and upstate NY, but they don't hire anyone with experience from another company...might have picked up too many bad habits. So this is an island of a company, or fab, and the shore is a very long distance away. I hope NSM, Portland makes it. I may have some long lost relatives or friends working there. Tony