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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Elmer who wrote (28479)2/14/1998 10:29:00 PM
From: Jeff Fox  Read Replies (2) of 1572556
 
Elmer, re:"Intel did use a gate array for the i740"

Or perhaps:

1. Intel has competitively dense gate array technology, and

2. The planned product lifetimes will be very short as
Intel evolves 3D to dramatically higher performance levels.
(The words Portola and Whitney cross my mind).

Please be cautious about comparing transistor densities between different chips as the difference usually just tells you the proportion of SRAM contained in the architecture. In 3D graphics big SRAMs translate to lower performance. The i740 is hyperpipelined. It contains many, many very small buffer memories distributed between pipeline stages. The small buffer memories are not nearly as dense as large SRAM arrays, but provide higher performance.

Jeff

P.S. Contributors to this thread have long bashed Intel for overpricing chips. It is amusing to now read sudden criticism of "dumping" due to too low a price!
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