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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (64909)7/12/1999 4:43:00 PM
From: Saturn V  Read Replies (2) of 1579896
 
<Even though those processors sell at low prices, the K6-2 will only take up about 46mm2 of space so it should theoretically be cheap to make, IF AMD's .18 process is up to par.>

Once the die size becomes very small a shrink is typically not worth the effort. The product cost is dominated by the material cost of the package. A plastic package will cost $6 to $ 10, while a ceramic package like the one used by K-6 will cost $15 to $30.

However with the K-63 and K-7 which have huge chips, the saving in chip cost becomes very significant. K-63 and K-7 on 0.18micron are worth the headaches and cost of transition. The higher MHZ on 0.18 for K-6 will not improve performance since the CPU will become memory starved.The transition on K-6 would make sense if AMD wanted to stop the lines on 0.25 and consolidate wafer fab processes on 0.18.
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