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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: James Lee Baldwin who wrote (103068)4/8/2000 11:14:00 AM
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AMD High On Thunderbird
~Maximum PC

Thunderbird, the newest AMD processor based on copper interconnects and full-speed L2 cache, has started sampling. The new chip is the first x86 processor to implement copper in its construction.

Expected to be produced at AMD's Fab 30 in Dresden, Germany, Thunderbird will be based on a 0.18 micron, six-layer metal copper process and integrates L2 cache onboard running at full clock speed. The Athlon, by contrast, has a 2/5 L2 cache which hinders its performance in some tests compared to Pentium IIIs. The integration of the cache along with the implementation of copper will give AMD an edge in performance.

Wafer yields are high and stable, which has been a concern of company's moving to copper processes. Company chairman and CEO Jerry Sanders stated, "The process is going well, and according to plan. The [technology] qualification has been completed successfully."

Thunderbird is but one of four processors expected to be released this year. Spitfire is expected in June using on-die cache running in Socket A which will be followed by Mustang-a mobile processor with up to 2MB of on-die cache. A low-end version is expected in the fourth quarter.
maximumpc.com

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