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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: fyo who wrote (61903)6/16/1999 5:56:00 AM
From: Process Boy  Respond to of 1575791
 
fyo - <Didn't they drop the voltage, though? This would lead to:
1. Lower power-consumption --> longer battery life (very important, IMHO)
2. Less heat generated --> less demanding packaging/motherboard/etc. requirements --> cheaper

--fyodor>

Saints preserve us thank you! Also of note, there are customers out there for it. Certainly won't hurt the ol' ASP, whatever that may be :-).

This part (.18 Dixon) was never meant to demonstrate process performance. It was meant to demonstrate process capability and manufacturablity, and as an added benefit deliver a competitive product to the marketplace.

PB




To: fyo who wrote (61903)6/16/1999 8:47:00 AM
From: Kevin K. Spurway  Respond to of 1575791
 
Re: "Didn't they drop the voltage, though? This would lead to:"

fyo, I understand the advantages of the dumb shrink of the Dixon. The reason I posted what I posted was because if the situation were the reverse, and AMD did what Intel did with regards to its first .18u production chip, you'd hear no end to the FUD from Paul and Yousef.

Kevin


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