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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Petz who wrote (77145)11/1/1999 5:47:00 PM
From: Saturn V  Read Replies (1) of 1571229
 
Ref <Some people think the K-7 gate sizes will not be reduced much because they are already almost at 0.18 >

If AMD does not shrink the gate size in the move to 0.18micron, the power consumption will drop significantly. the speed by a first order model will be unchanged. The cooler chip may cause the speed to improve by 50-100MHz at most. So how does AMd plan to go 1GHz and beyond ?

Either AMD will shrink the poly gate significantly below 0.18micron
or will have to change the K-7 design significantly by tweaking the speed paths. My guess is that they will do both, as they did on the 0.25micron technology on the K-62.

Intel will most likely also tweak the Coppermine speed paths and the process to gain the most of the 0.18micron process.

Any tweaks create the possibilities of fumbles and yield crashes.So it will be an interesting horse race for the next six months ! Once Willamette or the rumored 0.13micron process show up, Intel will have a more comfortable performance lead.
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