PB,
I wonder...maybe there is something to TSMC, Hitachi, Intel, saying that Cu wasn't
ready for .18. Hmmmm.
FWIW, albeit not in the desktop/NT workstation realm type of CPU chips, for a fact IBM is shipping System 390s based on copper 0.18 technology chips. Having said that, the CPU chips in those machines are peers with Intel CPUs wrt density, speed, logic type function, etc. In other words, they are the real McCoy. So, copper is here, at least at IBM. If the Motorola SNAFU is copper, any effect on AMD?
Didn't Intel put off copper until 0.13 because they thought they'd get more bang for their buck in improving the basic transistor performance and K dielectrics (out of my league here)?
Tony |
