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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Process Boy who wrote (70091)8/28/1999 2:02:00 AM
From: kapkan4u  Read Replies (2) of 1573019
 
<Intel has never had a penchant to implement immature process technology.>

PB,

I think the article is saying that one size fits all (copy exactly) methodology is no longer good for Intel. There is something wrong with building a $40 Celeron and a $3000 Xeon on exactly the same process in exactly the same FABs. It is like building Bentleys and Yugos on the same assembly line.

A while back, Intel looked at SOI and decided that it was unsuitable for the type of volumes that the Intel process requires. But if SOI gives you say a 20% performance increase, it would have been perfectly reasonable, to use it for low volume, high performance parts like Xeons.

Kap
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