Mani - <And if you want to believe that Intel ramps the 0.13 CU before AMD, FINE! Unless you provide some links proving your opinion, it is just that, an opinion.>
I said it was my opinion. Intel's publicly disclosed plan for implementation of .13 is 1H '01. It is my opinion that Intel will beat AMD to .13 ramp, unless AMD only plans to run .18 in Dresden for 6 months, which is not totally outside the realm of possibility. BTW, I don't see Cu as an issue of ramping to .13 for either company. Next generation lithography will be the issue, and I preceive Intel to be leading the industry in this area. My opinion again.
<Simplistic or not, Milo's argument makes sense, no reason to get vulgar. You said many times that manufacturing copper in volume is different than making a few in process development environment, due to CU contamination issues. AMD has experience in that respect and Intel does not.>
I CONCEDED THE POINT MANI. I do emphasize, however, that I don't think it's that big of a deal (my opinion again), in the least it's premature to predict Intel will have problems just because it didn't do Cu on .18. That is silly. One could just as easily argue that AMD wil have massive problems on .18 because it didn't do Cu on .25. Do you think that's the case?
<It seems to me that you expect your statements to not get challenged because you work in a fab. It does not work like that here PB.>
And it seems to me that I am being handicapped with my debates just because I work for Intel.
milo made some points. I strongly disagree with some of them. I conceded it was an impasse. Am I not allowed to strongly disagree, opinion or not?
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