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To: Process Boy who wrote (61046)	6/8/1999 10:02:00 PM
From: kash johal	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573592

PB, Re "Look I have no doubts that Intel has the capacity with 0.18 micron and is ready to go...... 2) Intel is now LATE with it's 0.18 ramp - it was initially due in Q2 99.> Which is it?" My best guess is that Intel has tons of 0.18 capacity. Just the designs are late and seem very slow. Either the process is slow (doubtfull) or their something screwy in the silicon design. This may explain the quickshrink parts. They have had problems with real 0.18 dixon and had to do the dumbshrink. Frankly the drop from 1.6V to 1.3V is no big deal, and one would have expected at least a 40% speed improvement in moving from 0.25 to 0.18. A 10% speed improvement is pretty poor IMHO. As far as Intels roadmap on their web site - you know it is way out of date due to AMD success in speed ramps. For example we know the 500Mhz Celerons are due in a few months way ahead of schedule. Regards, Kash