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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: RDM who wrote (51140)2/26/1999 8:23:00 PM
From: Elmer  Read Replies (1) of 1572025
 
Re: "Since neither Yousef nor Elmer know the factual insulator thickness of the finished devices they cannot accurately judge the safety margins involved."

I don't attempt to. What I can do is ask some obvious questions. Why did AMD boost the Vcc now and not 2-3 months ago? Considering that AMD chose not to ship product running at 2.4V in the past, even though 2.4V would certainly have allowed higher speed binsplit, what prompted them to do so now? What changes have taken place in AMD's process that allow for 2.4V now when it was deemed too high a Vcc to ship reliable product to in the past? I find it difficult to believe that AMD as added thickness to their gateoxides to solve reliability concerns that toped them out at 2.2v in the past. In the absence of any other conceivable explanation, the obvious interpretation is that what was too risky yesterday when AMD was posting a profit, is now acceptable today while AMD is facing huge losses. I don't need to measure their gateoxides to see that their standards have been relaxed, and I've seen enough process changes to know that improvements lower Vcc's not the other way around. This is desperation any way you look at it, you're just polishing turds.

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