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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: kash johal who wrote (36733)9/6/1998 5:31:00 PM
From: Yousef  Read Replies (3) of 1571037
 
Kash,

Re: "But Yousef has stated that one key advantage that Intel has is they
have increased the FET drive current."

Actually Kash, Intel has about the same FET drive current as AMD, BUT Intel
does this at a lower operating voltage. Performance is proportional to
I/(CV), so as the voltage is decreased and FET drive current stays the
same ... then performance increases. Also the other BIG advantage from
this strategy is Power is proportional to CV^2f, so as voltage is reduced,
the power is decreased as the square of the voltage. This is one of the
big reasons that Intel OWNS the notebook market.

Re: "If we assume that wafer costs are equal ..."

Please don't make this assumption ... Intel gets much better prices on IC
equipment, chemicals, raw wafers ... and ... with their larger Fabs, Intel
is able to spread their operating and fixed costs over many more wafers.

Intel IS the low cost producer of CPU's.

Make It So,
Yousef
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