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To: kash johal who wrote (83456)6/15/1999 2:04:00 AM
From: Gary Ng  Respond to of 186894
 
kash, Re: They have a lot of process development to do if they want to start shipping laptop chips at 600Mhz in 3-4 months as promised

My understanding is that it will be 600Mhz with wall power and
slower when running on battery. I don't expect 600Mhz using
battery anytime soon.

Gary



To: kash johal who wrote (83456)6/15/1999 2:07:00 AM
From: Process Boy  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
kash -<So this "mobile" 0.18 part is just from the std. process>

Yes. All's I can tell you is everything worked out as expected. This is not a true .18 design. It pretty much worked as expected. There are issues with dumb shrinks, that's why they are not used extensively. We've mainly used them at process introduction. I do know we seem to have some customers for them though, so evidently out customers aren't as hung up as you are on all these details, which pleases me to no end.

<They have a lot of process development to do if they want to start shipping laptop chips at 600Mhz in 3-4 months as promised.>

The 600MHz mobile part you are referring to would be Coppermine w/Geyserville, running at 1.5V when plugged into 110V, and 450 or so when on batteries. I fail to see the connection. Also, the target intro for Geyserville is Q4 and always has been. You seem to be continually moving up the schedules on Intel's programs lately.

PB



To: kash johal who wrote (83456)6/15/1999 11:23:00 AM
From: d[-_-]b  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 186894
 
kash,

You completely miss the point of the shrink.

The smaller process (0.18) produces more dice per wafer, thus lowering Intels cost, thus raising ASP's. Do you understand how this increases shareholder value and in turn the share price in the coming quarters. It also gives Intel more price flexibilty going forward.