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To: darren_ who wrote (31728)	4/23/1999 3:22:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 33344

RE:"There making something. I have a feeling that we will find out what it is next week."... I think they were planning to spoil the Whitney party but ran into a snag or a hot Hallapeno.

To: darren_ who wrote (31728)	4/23/1999 3:45:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 33344

Darren, I suspect they have several products in the 0.18 fab which will need continual attention. The job change does seem a little bit odd. Scumbria

To: darren_ who wrote (31728)	4/23/1999 9:26:00 PM
From: Dan B.	Respond to of 33344

Darren, biz.yahoo.com >>The Stack awards are presented each year to the top three semiconductor manufacturers for consistent achievement and overall performance in meeting the quality, delivery and service criteria of Stack members... Zia Fatherazi, managing director of Stack, said, ''To hit the top spot for their first award is an outstanding achievement and recognizes the efforts National have made in delivering world class performance in 1998.'' This year's Silver award went to Motorola, and the Bronze award went to Texas Instruments. ...over the six most recent quarters National Semiconductor has reduced its overall defect rate by 65 percent, and meets even much more stringent quality performance rates below 10 parts per million for some specific product lines. Gordon noted that in addition to the Stack award National also received three other significant awards during the most recent quarter. These included the Preferred Supplier award from Nortel and the SPEED Team award for excellence in defect reduction from Visteon. In addition, National was the only semiconductor supplier to receive the Hughes Networks Systems Supplier of the Year award ''Our commitment to meeting the needs of our customers is our highest priority,'' Gordon added, ''and these awards are concrete evidence that we are fulfulling those expectations.'' Darren, I love it. LOL....they are building something you say?

To: darren_ who wrote (31728)	4/26/1999 2:42:00 AM
From: Dan B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33344

Darren, Re: "What I did notice is that.... "The Portland fab went from producing no Cyrix chips in August, to making 80% of all Cyrix chips in the middle of the third quarter. And between 2,000 and 3,000 in the early going to 8,000 wafer starts most recently, say McCleod." I haven't looked to find where you got that quote, it's not in the news on the Padmanabhan switch to Networking. What I noticed from that release is the following- which certainly deserves appearing here so folks can readily see just what CEO Halla had to say about the man and his work as opposed to speculation by thread members. national.com "Padmanabhan has earned the highest level of credibility with me and the entire executive staff of National Semiconductor by his unparalleled execution as head of process technology development over the last three years," said Brian L. Halla, president and CEO of National. "His team has leapfrogged National over three generations of process technology and brought our state-of-the-art 0.18-micron fab on line in South Portland, Maine," Halla added. Obviously Halla's estimation of "Pad's" past performance with the Portland Fab is VERY high in this statement. Do we assume Halla paints a VERY pretty face on an ugly situation? Or do we assume the man's job is done and done well as indicated? I see no evidence that this switch is anything more than a new challenge for Padmanabhan after completing his assignment. He's still with NSM- ready to consult if needed, surely. Why wouldn't talent left at Portland be prepared to oversee on-line operations- particularly if Padmanabhan set it all up as well as suggested here by Halla?