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- From: devine@olympus.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Bob Devine)
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- Subject: Re: net.views - dec and alpha
- Date: 10 Jan 1993 23:52:15 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
- : I just heard something
- : about the collapse of a "microchip plant"
- :
- : Was this DEC's new Alpha fab?
- : How will production ramp-up be delayed by this event?
-
- A concrete wall collapsed and hurt about 2 dozen workers.
- The building was intended as a new chip factory that will
- start producing them in a couple of years. The construction
- accident didn't hurt the existing building and their chip lines.
-
- So, in short, no problem for Alpha.
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- Bob Devine
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