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To: muzosi who wrote (140843)	8/4/2001 12:41:14 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) of 186894

just have a question: why is it that with 250 nm steppers AMD can have a 180 nm process and 130 gates and not have 100 nm gates (or less) with a 198 nm stepper ? IOW why don't you expect AMD gates to scale less than 130 nm when the process goes to 130 nm ? Why should only some layers scale down ? AMD's gates are already well below .13u. In fact they're well below .10u now. Not being a process expert, I can't speak well about how they got that small or the other factors besides lithography that limit a process. However I can tell you why they got that small. Desperation. AMD is falling behind and they have no other option. The design has run out of gas, the process is sucking wind and the competition is still fresh and leaving them in the dust. EP

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