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To: Saturn V who wrote (64914)	7/12/1999 5:18:00 PM
From: Steve Porter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579897

Saturn, You are forgetting one thing in your post: Once the die size becomes very small a shrink is typically not worth the effort. The product cost is dominated by the material cost of the package. A plastic package will cost $6 to $ 10, while a ceramic package like the one used by K-6 will cost $15 to $30. Once they shrink the K6-2 from .25 to .18 they can probably drop the operating voltage, thereby lower the power consumption, thereby move to a plastic pacakge, and save $9 - $25 a chip. Well worth the transition IMHO. Steve

To: Saturn V who wrote (64914)	7/12/1999 6:03:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579897

Saturn-VIII, <Once the die size becomes very small a shrink is typically not worth the effort.> What??????? The effort will give AMD the MHZ they desperately need to sell the chips. <The higher MHZ on 0.18 for K-6 will not improve performance since the CPU will become memory starved.> One more theorist of performance. You equally can apply this argument to any processor, P-III, Xeon, K7, etc. Go tell Intel they do not need the CuLATERmine with 600MHz: there will be a big laugh.