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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Joe NYC who wrote (115671)6/13/2000 1:41:00 AM
From: Hans de Vries  Read Replies (1) of 1571825
 
Jozef,

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?

I think it is mainly a reaction to the 200/266 EV6 FSB of
the Athlon. It seems that it will have a lower voltage
(1.2V) GTL FSB which then would run at 200 (266?) MHz.
There will be process-improvements without doubt but
going to 150 nm is less likely in my opinion since they do
mention the 130 nm products by name but don't say anything
about 150 nm.

Do you have any theory on Willamette 423 vs. 479? It's obvious that the change is there to enable it to work with Tulloch chipset. What do you think about my theory that Willamette 479 will have a built in Northbridge?

This was my first idea as well. The memory interface belongs
on the processor die. The current Willamette has 436
pins (Yes, I counted them from a photo...)

An Integrated northbridge would hook them to Rambus however.
They may preach the Rambus gospel but they will commit the
DDR SDRAM sins secretly without a doubt...

It would not surprice me at all if Camino3 and Almador are
really the same die in different (Flip-chip) packages!
This would resolve the impossible question of how many of
each need to be produced.

The same may be true for Tulloch...

Regards, Hans
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