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To: Scumbria who wrote (37073)	9/16/1998 12:15:00 PM
From: MikeyB	Respond to of 1571043

Re: The first sentence says that copper is not important for speed. The second sentence says copper is faster. Nice doubletalk. Sounds like Intel is running well behind Moto with copper. I suspect that Intel believes that they can get the necessary speed improvements thru transistor tweaking and related process improvements, thereby allowing the copper process manufacturing equipment and process technology to mature. I suspect that it wouldn't be all that difficult to integrate a mature process technology with a mature (and superior??) transistor process technology. So actually it could very well be a well thought out risk reduction plan, after all isn't it cheaper to let somebody else beta test the equipment and develop a decent baseline process if you can keep up speed wise without it? MikeyB