Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from James Covello - Goldman Sachs.
James Covello - Goldman Sachs
Good afternoon guys. Thanks so much for taking the question. Maybe a couple of things. The content per box comment was interesting because, you know, there’s a lot of concern about the fact that content per box could be flattening out here. What gives us – what is driving the increase in content per box?
Mark W. Adams
Jim, this is Mark. The content per box, I think, for us a lot of the projections we’re seeing that flatten that out is the percentage of bytes and bits going into netbooks and what have you. In the desktop arena, we’re seeing that it continues to drive toward a fairly good byte standard for configurations coming out of the manufacturing base. So while there is some growth, obviously, in the 2009 period for netbooks kind of having an impact on that, we still see the overall configuration being driven to 4 gigabytes for notebooks and desktop.
James Covello - Goldman Sachs
You know, one of the other concerns that people have about the supply side argument is that there is a fair amount of latent or idled capacity that could come back online. As we get into a little bit of [alpha] period for DRAM and MRAM, and that that latent capacity coming back online would kind of stymie any price recovery. Do you guys have any thoughts on that?
Steven R. Appleton
Yes, Jim, this is Steve. I think there’s a couple of things to point out around that. Some of it that you’re mentioning or I guess not that you’re mentioning but that’s going on in the industry, you know, the capacity that existed at – let’s use [Qimonda] as an example. The Richmond facility was running 30 thousand 12-inch per month. I mean that is just down and gone. And we can’t imagine a scenario where that recovers. They also were running about 40 thousand 8-inch per month on DRAM. In the 8-inch facility [say] next to the 12-inch. That’s down and gone. They’ve obviously stopped producing [inaudible]. I don’t think that capacity is coming back at all.
And I would also note our Intels, we shut down our 200-millimeter. I should say we’re in the process of shutting down our 200-millimeter here in Boise. We don’t expect that that would return. So there’s a fair amount of capacity that will not come back on.
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