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To: Yousef who wrote (43692)	12/21/1998 2:11:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573198

Yousef, re:<<you are wrong...depreciation and R&D both go up per chip, the correct answer is that these costs stay the same for each wafer>> What can I say, it was late and I was a little giddy over the K6-3 performance. Actually, as far as R&D goes, AMD has far more wafer capacity than they are using now -- and R&D won't have to go up 1 cent to put more machines in their fabs. In other words R&D per wafer will be going down, independent of what chips are being produced. Secondly, as for depreciation, only the equipment depreciation goes up as AMD starts running more wafers, the other depreciation costs per wafer do DOWN as capacity increases. Petz