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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)
AMD 256.75-0.8%10:30 AM EST
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To: pgerassi who wrote (217898)11/30/2006 8:59:22 AM
From: THE WATSONYOUTHRead Replies (1) of 275872
 
Sorry Pete.....but much of what you say here is misleading.

As far as I can tell, no one here has grasped the concept of transistor length vs width. Length (the real short dimension) is the distance from source to drain. Width is the width of the silicon island which the gate crosses from one side to another.....isolating the source from the drain. Remember.....drive current at a fixed channel LENGTH is expressed as nA/um of channel WIDTH
From 90nm to 65 nm,the channel WIDTH shrinks by the scaling factor, the silicon island area shrinks by the scaling factor^2 but in the first 65nm device, the channel LENGTH stays the same (at least according to AMD).

THE WATSONYOUTH
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