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To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (57600)	5/7/1999 3:33:00 PM
From: Process Boy	Respond to of 1571928

Kevin - " I'm guessing that at some point Intel will have both Cu and Al processes running at the same feature size." Then you would guess wrong. PB

To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (57600)	5/7/1999 3:39:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571928

Kevin - Re: "Fab 30 has been designed from the ground up for Cu. " Where do you get such absolute NONSENSE ? Fab 30 was designed in 1996 with construction starting in the Spring of 1997. AMD didn't cut the Motorola Copper deal until July of 1998. Now just how did the FAB 30 designers figure out in 1996 how to design a FAB using a process from ANOTHER company that wasn't even in the PICTURE for almost TWO YEARS AFTER THE DESIGN was done? Paul