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To: Gottfried who wrote (23398)	8/26/1998 11:37:00 PM
From: Big Bucks	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

GM, Interesting article. The implications are that 200mm will be profitable far into the future since such a device shrink will allow many more chips with more tightly packed devices on the same amount of chip real estate. Conceivably a manufacturer could get 5x+ more chips than currently possible. The real difficulty is repairing, testing, handling and packaging such tiny chips. Also such miniaturization could make certain products so cheap that profit margins for consumer end products creates a situation similar to DRAM where it almost isn't profitable. BB