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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Elmer who wrote (26444)12/4/1997 11:44:00 PM
From: Yousef  Read Replies (1) of 1573922
 
Elmer,

Re: "For all those who ask "what's the big deal?" about AMD boosting the VCC up to 3.3v ..."

I think the other important item (which you touched on) is that the "big
deal" of raising the supply voltage by .1V is that this change does not
address the "root cause" of the problem. My experience tells me that AMD
is having a process margin/control problem (I have posted this many times)
and my concern is that process parameters could continue to drift to
where the K6 at 233mhz will begin to fail at even this higher voltage ... then
how will the problem be fixed. I'm sure you are also correct, Elmer that
the quality department recognizes this as a "bandaid" type of fix which
doesn't sit well with the type of reputation that AMD is trying to portray.

This same senario could be replayed with the .25um process in about 6 months.

Make It So,
Yousef
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