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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Process Boy who wrote (62382)6/19/1999 12:42:00 AM
From: grok  Read Replies (2) of 1572036
 
RE: <I know virtually 100% of the issues involved here>

It seems to me that the problem must be in metalization rather than in frontend like Paul says. It's tough to accurately model and extract metal loads and the ratio of criticalness between transistors and interconnect is shifting toward interconnect due to the continuous scaling of each generation. My guess is that a number of paths turned critical due to crosstalk and rc delays and this came as a surprise.

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