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To: Mani1 who started this subject	11/7/2000 12:42:58 PM
From: andreas_wonisch	Read Replies (3) of 275872

Intel's and Motorola/AMD's 130 nm processes to be revealed Saw this on Hans de Vries site: chip-architect.com Two consecutive presentations during this years International Electron Device Meeting in San Francisco on December 12 will reveal details about the next generation 130 nm processes that Intel and AMD plan to use to continue their ongoing micro-processor speed race. AMD will jointly present their co-developed 130 nm process with Motorola. AMD and Motorola will use ASML's 248 nm lithography tools which means that AMD should be able to ramp up volume production well before Intel which will use SVLG's 193 nm scanners. The Intel process looks more aggressive on the design rules while AMD and Motorola are out in front in terms of interconnect. Motorola/AMD's use of a low k (<3.0) dielectric used to isolate the wires comes as a real surprise. IBM was until now the only one to apply such a low k-dielectric (Silk, k=3.0) which should decrease wire delays in a similar way as copper does. The question is if AMD will use this option from the start or begin with the more conservative FSG (fluorosilicate glass) method that uses basically fluor doped SiO2. The use of a real low-k dielectric was the third major break-through for IBM after copper and SOI. The big mystery around AMD is where SOI fits in. This combined Motorola/ AMD presentation shows the close cooperation between the two. Motorola recently disclosed how it developed the SOI G4+ PowerPC processor (codenamed Apollo) during this years Micro processor Forum and an SOI AMD processor may be closer then held possible only a few months ago although I would not expect anything before H2 2001. Andreas

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