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To: Joe NYC who wrote (106741)	4/19/2000 1:03:00 AM
From: Cirruslvr	of 1575941

Jozef - RE: "The reason I was asking is that I am wondering what percentage of Fab 25 is .18u, and what part is .25u. Also, what other products are being made in Austin? What's capacity, and what percentage is dedicated to CPUs?" I doubt AMD gives out percentages. I think AMD fabs the stuff for Vantis in Fab 25. They sell embedded processors, probably from Fab 25. Someone once said chipsets are being fabbed by one of the foundries in Taiwan, not by AMD. I have no clue where they make their networking chips. If T-Birds AND Spitfires AND Athlons are going to be sold from Fab 25, the % to .18 IS increasing quite a bit. "As far as switching from .25u K6-2 to .18u K6-2+, 3+, is there any change in number of die per wafer?" K6-2 on .25 is 81mm2 and K6-III on .25 is 118m2. I don't know if the drop to .18 is linear, but even if isn't the die sizes go down quite a bit. Also, since the K6-III manufacturing sucked last year, the K6-2+ just may be a K6-III+ with half the cache disabled. One thing about the new .18 mobile chips is they run on 2.0 volts, the same voltage as the mobile .25 K6-2 475 runs at. This isn't a good sign. But this combined with PowerNow! should be fine for the low-end notebook market.

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