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To: Win Smith who wrote (148875)	11/19/2001 9:11:47 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (3) of 186894

Win, <FUD or complete cluelessness? I doubt if anybody has done a "layout the chip by hand" job on a major microprocessor since the original MC68000.> Before you continue on with your juvenile retorts, you should know that the K7 design guys did indeed layout the chip by hand. This was revealed during the Dirk Meyer dinner presentation around May or June of 1999, as well as a Fred Weber presentation at MIT made months later. In the face of the trend toward further automation, the methodology was considered to be very unconventional. But obviously it succeeded. It is unknown whether AMD is continuing to use hand-layout or not, especially with Hammer. I wouldn't doubt it, considering how the Hammer design borrows heavily from the original K7. Tenchusatsu

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