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To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (61759)	6/14/1999 6:03:00 PM
From: Process Boy	Respond to of 1576163

Kevin - < So what you're saying is that Intel has achieved ZERO speed speed grade improvement from the introduction of their vaunted .18u process! Impressive indeed!> The .18 version dissipates several watts (@9.8W! to be exact)less than the .25. It also comes in a much slimmer package. Saying that the .18 achieves performance parity with .25 is decieving. As was posted about several times by Elmer and myself, this is not the flagship part for .18. There are many reasons, and many customers for this product. It serves the performance notebook market, something AMD does not. Also, this allows a viable pilot production vehicle to in essence "kick the tires" of .18. Just because you don't understand the notebook market of leading edge manufacturing techniques does not make this product a flop. Again, this product was intended as a low power small package option that can be used in MICRO notebooks. I want to see any AMD part at 400MHz dissipate 9.8W in a tiny package. PB

To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (61759)	6/14/1999 6:10:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576163

Kevin, So what you're saying is that Intel has achieved ZERO speed speed grade improvement from the introduction of their vaunted .18u process! If Intel can't get a 20% clock speed improvement out of 0.18u, they are going to be hurting pretty badly competing against K7. Scumbria