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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Joe NYC who wrote (115671)6/13/2000 12:41:00 AM
From: Elmer  Read Replies (1) of 1571904
 
Re: "What do you think the Coppermine-T could be? New revision? A die shrink? Some kind of optimization? It looks like this will be some major revision of the core to find itself on the roadmap, but not too radical to earn a code name? Is there any room to for the .18u equipment to get to .15u or lower?"

Jozef, Intel's .18u process started off with .13u channel lengths....

Re: "Suppose you do move the northbridge to the CPU. I guess there will be some savings in pins and some additional pins"

If they moved the RMBS controller on-die there would no longer be a FSB..not likely. SMP would be impossible with Intel's current architecture.

Re: "Suppose you do move the northbridge to the CPU. I guess there will be some savings in pins and some additional pins. You have add pins tor communication with AGP (piece of $hit), some communication with southbridge. I don't know what savings you could have. Can anyone come up with a ballpark figure of net addition of pins that migration of Northbridge to CPU would be?"

You'd drop 64 bits (or would that be 128 <G>) for the databus and 32 bits for the addresses and control signals that are multiplexed on those pins plus a few more signals but you'd add some for the AGP port and a hublink for the south bridge but why not just drop this because it ain't gonna happen...

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