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To: Yousef who wrote (55423)	4/14/1999 9:11:00 AM
From: Shane Geary	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573812

Re: "It is standard practice in the industry to do base layer starts, and hold them up for metal changes." Yousef, This is pretty standard in my experience. So there you have a 'fab guy' and a 'design guy' from different companies both confirming it. Now, it is definitely more prevalent in some areas of the IC industry. How many new products does Intel introduce every year? Many companies design and fabricate hundreds, so product development procedures are very different. Shane