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To: Paul Engel who wrote (111955)9/30/2000 10:59:11 PM
From: Dan3  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
Re: Why is AMD's Thunderbird 33% LARGER that Intel's Coppermine - 120 sq.mm vs. 90 sq. mm?

So it can pound PIII into the dirt.

:-)

It might also have something to do with it having a much larger core than then PIII. P4 has a much larger core than Thunderbird, and is 217 mm2. There are postings on Aces Hardware message board suggesting that the P4 was hoped to be 170 mm2 and use local interconnect, but that Intel had problems with the process and had to fall back on a non-LI version that was developed concurrently as a backup. The suggestion was also made that if Intel could get its LI process to yield, they could quickly drop the die size of the P4 back to 170 mm2.

Have you heard if that what happened? Was it an unreasonable suggestion on the part of the poster at Aces?

Dan
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