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To: Paul Engel who wrote (61687)	6/15/1999 3:39:00 PM
From: Rob Young	Read Replies (2) of 1571860

Guess you aren't interested about talking die size anymore. Time to switch horses? > What are the speeds of the Alpha chips in these $7500 workstation? 700 MHZ? 600 MHz ? 500 MHz ? 500 MHz. Now the question is how do these workstations perform as a system. What bandwidth main memory to CPU? L2 cache speed and size, SpecInt and SpecFp, AIM. In other words, things that matter at a workstation level. Your point is? >By the way - I hear Compaq is in a big hurry to switch to Copper >Metallization for the Alpha - you wouldn't know why, would you? No I wouldn't and I'm not so sure getting to copper in a hurry matters. EV67 is in .28 micron .. an aluminum process. EV68 is at .18 aluminum and copper. Perhaps you are referring to the Techweb "Copper in 99" piece stating IBM fabbing a .18 copper part? Yes there is a good deal of intrigue ala Samsung and IBM and Alpha and copper and fabbing, etc. Had a conversation Sunday regarding that matter. By the way, Intel is fabbing .18 now. Intel is under contract to fab parts for Alpha. Intel will be doing the aluminum .18 Alpha parts, right? Certainly not copper as Intel's roadmap shows copper showing up in .13 micron. So what is your point re: copper?

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