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To: kash johal who wrote (113152)	5/28/2000 11:38:00 PM
From: hmaly	Read Replies (2) of 1573327

Kash Re...<<<<<AMD's sweetspot out of Austin seems to be around 800-900Mhz <<<<< True but these athlons will be coming out of Dresden on a whole new process. If the core is shrunk to .15 with on die cach and core improvements, 1.5 ghz comes within the realm of possibility. We also should remember that it was believed Intel couldn't hit 1.5 ghz and couldn't possibly double pump but it is accepted as true now. <<<<<The idea that almost everything is yielding at 1.5Ghz would imply that some parts should yield as high as 1.8-2.0Ghz.<<<<<<<< This also would normally be true, but what if the article about using super pure silicon is true, in that it allows chips to run 30% cooler and the yields and bin speeds are more uniform. Its quite possible AMD has tested it and it could have increased speed and yields. Stranger things than that have happened. The point of my post was that we have had several rumors going around here previously which wouldn't make any sense unless the 1.5 ghz was true. 1) I am talking about the fact that when Chic Hearne started posting here in March he said that the buzz was that the IBM engineers ;who had seen both Willy and Tbird; said that Tbird was a better chip. 2) Tbird took best of show when Willy and Tbird met at Cebit. 3) Sanders has stated at q1-2000 that Tbird or mustang would be competitive with Willy. 4) Sanders has stated yields were better at Dresden than Austin. 5) It was on j c's last week that IBM was going to start producing alpha chips for compaq and speeds were going to improve with copper process from 866mhz to 1.22 ghz; a percentage increase comparable to athlon going from 1ghz tgo 1.5.. 6) Yields at ibm's new copper process plant are rumored to be in the 70% range. It was reported in an EBN article on the new plant several weeks ago. All these rumors add up to the possibility this is true. I checked Datek and the last there was AMD at 86; a jump of 12 from close friday. How it got there or if it is legit I do not know.

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