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From: speyer@joy.cad.mcc.com (Bruce Speyer)
Newsgroups: comp.lsi
Subject: Re: who is your favorite ASIC/Custom IC vendor?
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Date: 4 Oct 90 13:19:18 GMT
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In article <1537@gold.GVG.TEK.COM> grege@gold.GVG.TEK.COM (Greg Ebert) writes:
>National Semiconductor - Used as a 'fab for hire', ie "here's my PG tape, now
>give me my wafers". Aggressive pricing.

This is not accurate.  They offer a range of services like the other vendors
too.  It is not unusual for them to do at least the physical layout and test.
Bruce Speyer / MCC CAD Program                        WORK: [512] 338-3668
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