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To: economaniack who wrote (243228)	11/3/2007 1:25:12 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) of 275872

"So this is just a really terrible choice of review for evaluating my claim that AMD tuned for low load efficiency." Whether it was their original intention or not, it did happen. At 90nm, both Intel and AMD used 1.2nm gate oxide. At 65nm, AMD increased it to 1.5nm. What makes it even more interesting is that when AMD was originally talking about the process, it had a 1.2nm gate oxide. So, something changed. Maybe they ran into trouble. Or maybe at some point they realized that they were going to be outperformed and decided try to change the game. Either way, they have a process that has low gate leakage. And is going to have trouble clocking as high as their 90nm process unless they can start pulling rabbits with strain.

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