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To: phbolton who wrote (45456)	4/29/1999 12:53:00 PM
From: nolimitz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 53903

what up with TER? fallout from KLIC? nolimitz

To: phbolton who wrote (45456)	4/29/1999 1:58:00 PM
From: Fabeyes	Respond to of 53903

.... be some kind of boondoggle..... In the beginning, opps sounds like the bible. When Lehi was first designed it would have worked well. Plus have a second source of DRAM's; a little scary to think you could go out of business with one explosion or even contamination. Lehi would also have given them a good base for testing the product off site. It would have also opened more room for R&D, which now is in one "smaller" fab that is running production now too. The people who would have brought the facility up were real geniuses with starting fabs. Also some of the best engineers MU has would have gone to set up the fab to mimic the Boise site. Toolsets would have been alike and the technology could have flowed freely in a FULL R&D site. There would have been plenty of people to hire; National now Fairchild has been in the area for years and have not had any problems, other than losing money (a National tradition). But this was all to be done in a certain window of time. That was missed due to internal politics instead of doing business they argued. Now there are far too many facilities vacant. The two I mentioned earlier, and at least three others in the Colorado Springs area. Several around Portland and Seattle. And there are a few empty in Texas. The list goes on. Not all up to .18um or lower but if you get the property cheap enough you can gut it and build what you want for your needs, for the same price as buying Lehi. Lehi is a monster fab, who knows maybe Wafer Tech would be interested? That is being run by a former Micron Engineer; a good one too. I think, they are still paying about $300 million in taxes and about 50-75K per month in basic upkeep. Not sure those are accurate numbers but it is a lot.