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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (68191)	8/9/1999 10:58:00 PM
From: Charles R	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578942

Cirruslvr, <He confirms the Athlon's voltage - "The current specification of the 500 - 650MHz parts call for a core voltage setting of 1.6v, which is 0.4v less than the Pentium III's voltage 2.0v requirement."! I guess AMD will have room to jack up the voltage if that is necessary to get to 700MHZ> I have been a little bit indifferent to the voltage issue so far but it is quite impressive what AMD has here. Given that AMD is rumored to be getting at least 750MHz on 0.25, they will have enormous upside potential in 0.18. Usually, one of the hits a design takes while moving to a new process is that it will have to operate at a low voltage which negates part of the benefit of moving to the new process w.r.t. speed. Athlon may not have to take that hit (other than the chips for laptop market) Process guys on the thread, do you care to comment? Chuck

To: Cirruslvr who wrote (68191)	8/9/1999 11:45:00 PM
From: Jim Davis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578942

Re: " He confirms the Athlon's voltage - "The current specification of the 500 - 650MHz parts call for a core voltage setting of 1.6v, which is 0.4v less than the Pentium III's voltage 2.0v requirement."! " Paul, Yousef, Kick ass don't you think?

To: Cirruslvr who wrote (68191)	8/10/1999 12:05:00 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578942

RE:" He confirms the Athlon's voltage - "The current specification of the 500 - 650MHz parts call for a core voltage setting of 1.6v, which is 0.4v less than the Pentium III's voltage 2.0v requirement."!" UNBELIEVABLE, AMD has trounced Intel in "Yousef" process technology. 1.6v and 650Mhz....lower voltage and mo' megahertz on .25u. Jim