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To: Charles R who wrote (62436)	6/19/1999 11:55:00 AM
From: Charles R	Respond to of 1575728

Thread, <"Intel is going to have a long, dry summer," said Charles Glavin, an analyst with Credit Suisse, as there are no "sexy, gee-whiz" products on their road map. Coppermine's delay doesn't help.> <More interestingly, the summer release of the K7 means that K7-based PCs will come out this year. PC makers typically don't like developing new models in the fourth quarter, added Brookwood, which means they could delay Coppermine units until 2000.> news.com Analysts are just beginning to get a feel for how bad the situation is. I say there is a decent chance that there will be a downgrade or two next Monday. Well, from their clients perspective - better late than never. Chuck

To: Charles R who wrote (62436)	6/19/1999 12:44:00 PM
From: Process Boy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575728

Charles, <<Kap wrote: Intel was planning to take 0.18u all the way to the GHz range. If they "brute force" the process now to get to 600 MHz, how will this affect their ability to reach 1 GHz later next year?>> <However, so much learning and optimization goes into the newer process over its life time that one will be hard pressed to comeup with an example where the new process does not show significant improvement by the time it matures.> Absolutely. This is why Intel's .25 will reach 600MHz. The sustaining engineers for .25 (P856) have done an outstanding job of continuous improvement on this process, with phenomenal yields. At one time, not very long ago, when P856 was in earlier stages of development, it looked much different than it does today. BTW, I have heard that the PIII 600 will not have the voltage "jacked up" versus the 550, as had been speculated on this thread. Nice job in scaling. Any P856 folks who happen to read this should be proud of their achievements. PB