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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (73499)9/30/1999 12:52:00 AM
From: Yousef  Read Replies (1) of 1572947
 
WATSONYOUTH,

Re: "It does appear that AMD is using a device design for the .25um Athlons
that has thinner gate oxide and shorter channel lengths than Intel's .25um
rocess. If so, some of the performance advantage observed to date is
due to process and not design."

This could be the case ... However, Intel's .18um process will have FET's
with physical gate lengths of .13-.14um . The real downside to what
AMD has done (.18um FET coupled with .25um BEOL) is that they don't get
a smaller die size and thus more possible die/wafer and higher yield/wafer.
Intel at .18um will have a device performance advantage as well as a cost advantage.

Make It so,
Yousef
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