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To: Dan3 who wrote (67719)	8/5/1999 10:12:00 AM
From: Pravin Kamdar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575002

Dan, theregister.co.uk My bet is on DDR. Pravin.

To: Dan3 who wrote (67719)	8/5/1999 9:26:00 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1575002

Dan3 <But if the Motorola/IBM process lets them keep up with intel, intel has to to go back and redesign, retest, and rebuild chipsets, motherboards, and CPU i/o. Otherwise intel performance becomes synonomous with 10% slower...> There is a Motorola process. There is an IBM process. There is no Motorola/IBM process. Motorola and IBM are competitors for the APPLE CPU business. The Cu BEOL was developed INDEPENDENTLY by the two companies.IBM has been delivering .25um Cu BEOL CPUs to APPLE for some time now. Motorola has delivered none that I'm aware of. Motorola's design for APPLE G4 systems is a .18um generation Cu BEOL CPU incorporating Motorola's "ALTIVEC" instruction set. So Motorola's experience with this process must be the basis for them assisting AMD in Dresden. Right? Well, that design taped out 21 months ago and still no APPLE G4s. So I don't dispute Motorola is helping AMD. But the question is - WHO will help Motorola?? THE WATSONYOUTH