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To: Process Boy who wrote (71316)	9/7/1999 11:01:00 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Read Replies (1) of 1574187

Petz, < You continue to spread this lie about the G4 being a 0.18µ CPU, even when Motorola flatly contradicts you. Your reasoning is based on transistor density, but you vastly underestimate the increase in density due to local interconnect.> P.B.. <That's THEWATSONYOUTH, not me. I do find his analysis very interesting though, and am in the process of trying to verify its veracity. I just saying that 450MHz is, well, 450 MHz on .18, never mind the vaunted Cu?> I think what I said was I believe the Apple G4's are actually from a .25um GROUNDRULE process and NOT .18um groundrules as the press release would have you think. The press release says a .18um (.15um L effective) I believe they are referring to the gate level only and the groundrule generation is actually .25um. - 4 reasons 1) .15um L effective is way too large for .18um groundrules. 2) 450MHz is way too low for .18um groundrules. 3) 83mm2 is too large for G4 in .18um groundrules (G3 without AltiVec was 40mm2 in .25um groundrules) 4) Motorola is generally behind in introducing advanced generations - not ahead. However, at .25um groundrules, all the numbers fit. THE WATSONYOUTH

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