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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Yousef who wrote (47439)1/26/1999 10:26:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr  Read Replies (2) of 1571891
 
533MHz the max for Intel on .25 process?...

"Intel's New CPU Process Spells Clock Speed Aplenty

Hitting a clock-speed wall with its current 0.25-micron CPU
manufacturing process, Intel will fab down to a 0.18-micron process
by Q3, beckoning a whole new world of high-speed madness.

Anyone who's anybody projects that the upcoming Pentium III will
top out at 533MHz in its current 0.25-micron process. However,
new 0.18-micron process projections have Intel hitting 667Mhz by the end of 1999,
and 800MHz soon thereafter."

maximumpc.com

Is this pure speculation, or did Intel speed up the conversion to the .18 process because they knew at 533MHz the .25 process would max out at? At least the .18 process will enable lots of MHz.
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