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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: kapkan4u who wrote (62403)6/19/1999 11:15:00 AM
From: Charles R  Read Replies (2) of 1575626
 
Kap,

<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?>

I have seen a lot of comments on this on AMD and INTC threads and was hoping a process guy would comment but haven't seen that. So here is 2c from a non-expert:

Ususally when you get to a new process, the die size improves but speed improvements are small to non-existant because the previous process got pushed close to the edge and the new process is in a early phase of its life cycle with a major impediment - lower voltage. 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.

Regards,
Chuck
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