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To: Steve Porter who wrote (64949)	7/12/1999 9:24:00 PM
From: Saturn V	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579974

Ref - <Well I'm sure if the flip chip is the only thing stoping AMD from saving $25 in costs on a CPU that they would happily sacrifice a couple of cents worth of .18 silicon to go to a more 'traditional' technique, allowing for plastic packaging > Unfortunately a change from flip chip to wire bonding requires a complete new layout.[ Wire bonds can only be on the periphery of a chip, while flip chip can be located anywhere, even in the middle of a chip.]. Furthermore wire bonds add inductance to the Vcc and Vss lines ,reducing the max speed the chip is capable of. I doubt if AMD will relayout the K-62 for wire bonds.