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To: Andrew Vance who wrote (714)12/31/1997 10:59:00 PM
From: Ian@SI  Read Replies (2) of 1305
 
Happy new year Andrew (and all),

Andrew, Could you provide a quick summary of the pros and cons of skipping a generation?

techweb.cmp.com

This is not intuitive to me...

Thanks,

Ian.

Intel may skip generations

Intel will probably skip the 0.15-micron generation, now scheduled for 2001 on the SIA technology roadmap. Intel's technology strategy chief, Paolo Gargini, tells Jack Robertson of Semiconductor Business News this process generation was put into the roadmap "primarily as an interim stage for DRAM producers."

Logic device vendors, he says, "can stay on the time line through die shrinks using 0.18-micron processes." He says almost any 0.18-micron logic device can be extended to 0.13 micron before new design rules are needed. One candidate is Intel's 64-bit Merced microprocessor, which will begin with a design using 0.18-micron rules. It is likely to hike Merced density and speed by design shrinks using 0.18-micron rules through 2005.
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