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To: Steve Porter who wrote (64933)7/12/1999 5:38:00 PM
From: Saturn V  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1579898
 
< 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>

Slight problem with your logic. AMD K-6 uses flip chip technology
which requires a ceramic package. This year Intel pioneered a OLGA package which is lower cost flip chip package, but this is not yet been implemented by other vendors.


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