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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Yousef who wrote (39467)10/16/1998 6:51:00 AM
From: Maxwell  Read Replies (1) of 1573911
 
Yousef:

<<Intel has had that technical advantage this past 1 1/2 years and AMD has suffered.>>

How the hell Intel has the technical advantage when their die size are
131mm^2 and 154mm^2 on PII and CeleronA respectively? Is this what you call Intel advantage?

1) Die swelled from 135mm^2 to 154mm^2
2) Fab capacity dropped by 15% due to switching from PII to CeleronA
3) Fabs that switched from Pentium to CeleronA capacity dropped by 80%!
4) Yield on CeleronA sucks big time even though there are some gung-ho
Intel spreading rumors that the yield on CeleronA is 100% and north
of 150. What a crock.
5) Cycle time goes up as Intel migrates from Pentium to CeleronA
6) As a result Intel is "supply limited" and tell OEMs to go elsewhere.

<<Intel will continue to have the advantage with the release of their .18um process and much faster/larger cache CPU's.>>

Yeah, rah, rah, rah .... Keep on talking. You think Intel is the
only one that can go to 0.18um? Going to 0.18um will increase in the
speed. That is like putting nitro in the same old Chevy PII engine.
There is only soo much power the logic core can do. IMHO Intel will
lag AMD in speed and architecture. 18+ months behind is about the
number. Lately, I heard there is much infighting going at Intel on how to block the K7. Every Intel's team thinks they got a better idea. I think the Priest got the best solution, PRAY.

Maxwell
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