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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Scumbria who wrote (51634)3/4/1999 5:29:00 PM
From: RDM  Read Replies (1) of 1572946
 
How long would you say the K7 would likely have taken to first silicon?

I am familiar with a VLIW processor, not x86 or close, that has taken two years so far and even though they have had silicon, it is not really first silicon on the completeness of what I suspect they had hast June for the K7. Thus for this 170 sq.mm chip it will likely be two and one half years for a first complete .25 micron part to be built. Partial feature chips were built after 18 months. Radical archictecture parts such as this may take more time because of the non conventional aspects to the design, or less, I do not know.

What you you think Scumbria for an modern competetive X86 design, such as the K8. How long should it take them to design it?
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