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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Paul Engel who wrote (61118)6/9/1999 2:31:00 PM
From: kash johal  Read Replies (2) of 1573846
 
Paul,

Re:" Bigger gates are better ?

Come on, Kash - that's a dead giveaway that guy doesn't know JACK SH*T about IC manufacturing and design !"

I think you are mistaken.

The K7 uses bigger gates as AMDs 0.25 micron process is not as agressive as Intels 0.25 process.

Now we all know that Intel has the worlds best process.

And with bigger gate lengths we all know the parts should run SLOWER.

However the K7 runs MUCH MUCH faster than the fastest PIII parts on 0.25 micron.

It runs FASTER on raw clock speed 600Mhz vs 550 for PIII.
And the FPU runs 20% FASTER on a clock by clock basis.

So for FPU sensitive apps AMDs K7 600 will be 30%+ faster than the PIII 550.

And they do that with bigger GATES.

This is AMAZING.

This means AMD K7 kicks BUTT period with one arm tied behind its back (BIGGER GATES).

Now when the SMALLER gates comes along in a few months the BUTT kicking will get even worse.

Regards,

Kash.
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