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To: Petz who wrote (77145)	10/26/1999 2:31:00 PM
From: Saturn V	Read Replies (1) of 1571404

Ref-<Some people think the gate sizes will not be reduced much because they are already almost at 0.18.> If AMD is already at 0.18 micron gates, and the gates are not shrunk any further, the voltage does not have to be reduced. However the dramatic speed gain in a shrink is due to smaller and thinner gates. Thus if AMD has already shrunk the gate, there will be gains in speed and lower power, but these will not be dramatic. The shrink will reduce the capacitance of the interconnect, but will not speed up the transistor. My gut feel is that both AMD and Intel will continue to tweak the transistor length over the course of the coming year, and the performance will continue to inch up. So Intel AMD performance will be relatively equivalent, until the Intel 0.13 micron process or Willamette show up next year. The latest Microprocessor Design Report claims that the Coppermine is significantly superior to Athlon in performance. It claims that the 733 Coppermine outperforms all RISC processors [ Alpha included] on integer benchmarks.

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