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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Scumbria who wrote (45120)1/7/1999 4:33:00 PM
From: kash johal  Read Replies (4) of 1571854
 
Scumbria,

Just got through going over the AMD analyst conference call slides.

Fab:
1. AMD looking at $10k / wfr revenue.
2. Ramps to 400,000 wafers/yr in 2001 at 0.18 micron
3. 98 wafers out are 100,000 ramping to over 200,000 in 99.

K6:

Sharptooth 10% faster than PII at same clock speeds for win 98 and NT.
-2 mobile at 350 Mhz in Q1.
500Mhz desktops and 400 Mhz mobile in 2H99.

Process.

Cs44e6/7 are 2.2V 0.25 micron with 170nm Gates 5 layer metal.
cs50 for 99 is 1.5V 0.18 micron with 120nm gates with 6 layer metal.
Hip6l for 2000 is 1.5V 0.18 micron with 100nm Gates with 6 layer copper ( copper only in Fab 30/ 25 will run with AL).

K7

AMD chip set initially followed by third party chip sets targetting diverse apps.
Collapsed L1 and L2 into large 128K L1.
(There is a confusing 3D Now slide that states additional 3D Now features. It follows statement regarding K7. It's possible that K7's 3D Now instructions are being enhanced or possibly that all 3D Now instructions are being enhanced)
The chip layout looks a little strange. It's in 4 sections with HUGE power bussing running thru it.

My comments:

Perhaps I won't buy the Intel stock after all.
The 100nm gates look tighter than what Intel was talking about at IEDM presentation.

Regards,

Kash
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