Mani - <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.>
And both you and Milo have failed in my mind to present a case as to why Intel not going to Cu at .18 is folly. Many Semi's went this route, and none of them appear to be going out of business. Also, the companies that have went to Copper haven't seemed to go out of business either, suggesting it is possible to implement greenfield Cu processes at some point.
Again, FOR INTEL to have implemented Cu on .18 would have been a huge waste of bandwidth, IMHO, as well as Intel techno gurus O's. Intel makes it's process decisions based on data, not what the other guy is doing.
BTW, IBM has a huge "lead" (quotes intentional) on AMD, MOT, and INTC on it's SOI process, something like two years. Better get with it huh?
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