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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Paul Engel who wrote (80543)11/20/1999 8:06:00 PM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (2) of 1572369
 
Hi all; No one responded to this: Re: "Sorry to disappoint, but the 700MHz chip is NOT made on the .18 process."

The transistors certainly are.

This is Engel's way of acknowledging that he was wrong about the 700MHz Athlons being .25u. So he's backing off and implying that the power consumption of the .18u will not be reduced because it has the same transistors as the .25u.

Power consumption is due to net capacitance. Net capacitance is the sum of wire capacitance and transistor capacitance. Even if the transistors stay the same, the reduced wire length will reduce the wire capacitance, and, therefore, the power consumption.

I think that when we see specs on power consumption for the .18u chips, we will be pleasantly surprised, and this FUD from Engel will seem particularly silly.

-- Carl
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