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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Yousef who wrote (26255)11/30/1997 6:29:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway  Read Replies (1) of 1572466
 
Thanks for your response. Certainly if you and Ali are able to agree that Slot 1 is a minor contributing factor to Intel's ability to get their chips to run at higher clock speeds, I have to accept it. After all, it was just a theory.

Re: "The processes to optimize are gate thickness, Source/Drain implants, channel implants, gate length ... The company that achieves the highest drive currents at the lowest operating voltages win in both performance AND power."

Am I incorrect to conclude from this that the optimization you refer to extends beyond production processes to the actual design/architecture of the chip? How does the fact that AMD's process is more aggresive as to transistor density impact this analysis?

Finally, does anyone know what Intel's .25u transition timetable is?

Kevin
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