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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (81542)11/30/1999 1:39:00 PM
From: kash johal  Read Replies (1) of 1576159
 
Pravin,

Re:"k6-III 500"

Dunno.

Seems like a strange time to be bringing it out at close to a $200 price point - which is where the AThlon 500's are at.

And with the K6-2+ and k6-3+ allegedly being introduced in january/february.

PS, Took a look at the Athlon PDF specs:

Vcc is same as 0.25 micron product 1.6V nominal +/- 0.1V.

Power is reduced. Initial Athlon 600 had 45 watts as typical power (50W max). Athlon 750 is 38 watts typical power (43W max).

Seems like they can run to 850-900Mhz consuming power similar to 0.25 700Mhz speed grades.

Not stunning performance but seems like they are keeping the front end constant and have improved just the back end process for density.

Nice conservative approach.

Yields should be awesome due to much smaller die.

Paul was figuring 30% Athlon yields at 180mm2 die.
With 100mm2 they should be at least 50% and thats 150 die per wafer.

Thats only 6K wafers/month to get to 1M units/month.

Looks pretty good to me.

regards,

Kash
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