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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Charles R who wrote (62436)6/19/1999 12:44:00 PM
From: Process Boy  Read Replies (1) of 1575622
 
Charles,

<<Kap wrote: Intel was planning to take 0.18u all the way to the GHz range. If they "brute force" the process now to get to 600 MHz, how will this affect their ability to reach 1 GHz later next year?>>

<However, so much learning and optimization goes into the newer process over its life time that one will be hard pressed to comeup with an example where the new process does not show significant improvement by the time it matures.>

Absolutely. This is why Intel's .25 will reach 600MHz. The sustaining engineers for .25 (P856) have done an outstanding job of continuous improvement on this process, with phenomenal yields. At one time, not very long ago, when P856 was in earlier stages of development, it looked much different than it does today.

BTW, I have heard that the PIII 600 will not have the voltage "jacked up" versus the 550, as had been speculated on this thread. Nice job in scaling. Any P856 folks who happen to read this should be proud of their achievements.

PB

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