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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Sam P. who wrote (25076)10/20/1997 12:12:00 AM
From: Yousef   of 1576605
 
Sam,

Re: "What implication's will this have for
AMD's ability to compete in the notebook market?"

Actually, I haven't predicted what supply voltage that AMD would use for
their .25um process ... I have been waiting for them to announce this.
Right now, it looks like AMD will use 2.1 -> 2.2V for notebooks and
2.5V for desktop K6's. This means for notebooks that AMD's K6 will
run at higher power and will be slower than Intel's offerings. So, AMD
will be at least 1 - 2 speed grades behind Intel for comparable power
dissipation in notebook CPU's.

In the desktop area, AMD's supply voltage of 2.5V for .25um matches Intel's .35um
process. This means that AMD won't be able to produce CPU that run much
above 300mhz. For AMD to reach 350mhz - 400mhz, they will have to re-develop
the fronthalf (FET) of their process.

Hope this helps.

Make It So,
Yousef
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