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To: Michael Latas who wrote (3491)	4/4/1999 12:13:00 PM
From: Don Devlin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 8393

I have always heard that one of the significant cost reducing factors was that the ECD semi conductor technology would not require clean rooms. Comments, please. Don Devlin

To: Michael Latas who wrote (3491)	4/5/1999 11:08:00 AM
From: Ray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8393

Walt, this subject of the "clean room" interests me greatly. My understanding is that chip manufacture requires a "clean room" of considerable complexity and extent - more accurately described as a "clean facility"; a pretty elaborate aggregate of co-ordinated equipment inside a room that is clean to a degree that is hard for laymen to imagine. Perhaps what is in the offing is that our chips would (initially, at least) be made elsewhere and that we would do only some final assembly - which also would likely require a (lesser) clean room. Or perhaps there is some further research, development, or testing that ECD must do - requiring, again, a lesser clean room facility. I throw these possibilities out in hopes they will jog someone's memory who can shed more light on the subject.