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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Charles R who wrote (67773)	8/5/1999 10:29:00 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1575337

<Given the context, you seem to be implying that G4 is Process issue. Is that right?> You are right. It may not be. My guess is that it is a combination of several issues (design/.18um Cu BEOL/performance/etc) However, 21 months is a long time. Seems like a minimum of 5 redesigns could have been completed by now. I don't know the complexity of the ALTIVEC instruction set. (Can anyone comment?) Motorola never competed favorably with IBM on performance with the same design. But Motorola never claimed these G4s would be especially fast anyway. So the .18um Cu BEOL could be the limiting factor assuming APPLE is really ready for this chip. THE WATSONYOUTH