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To: Paul Engel who wrote (68724)8/13/1999 1:34:00 PM
From: wily  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1572605
 
Paul,

Thankyou. That makes sense!

>>The new AthJOHN<<

You almost made it without the sarcasm too... I know -- I asked the impossible.

Regards,
w



To: Paul Engel who wrote (68724)8/13/1999 1:46:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1572605
 
<It appears to be made on a hybrid process using AMD's 0.18 micron front-end transistor process - to get the low operating voltage - but the back end is the 0.25 micron metallization process.>

Can you or anyone else explain this in more detail? I'm confused by your usage of the terms "front-end" and "back-end." For me, front-end means pre-silicon design, and back-end means anything physical like layout, routing, and post-silicon debug.

How do you mix a 0.18 micron process with a 0.25 micron process?

Tenchusatsu



To: Paul Engel who wrote (68724)8/13/1999 2:06:00 PM
From: wily  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1572605
 
OTOTOT

To All,

I've been looking into a company that is developing a ferro-magnetic memory tecnology using a Hall-Effect sensing device.

I'm having a hard time taking them seriously as the total R&D expenditure for the last two years is $280,000 (no zeroes missing).

Can anybody give me an idea as to the possible validity and viability of this technology?

The press has been aware:

sciam.com
ragingbull.com
news.laboratorynetwork.com

Patents:

164.195.100.11

164.195.100.11

The U of U researchers who are doing the development under contract reported a few months ago reads and writes in a single memory cell and they are now working on an 8-bit sample.

Does this thing have a future?

Thanks for any replies,
w






To: Paul Engel who wrote (68724)8/13/1999 3:58:00 PM
From: Dan3  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1572605
 
Re:has to RAPIDLY develop new process and rush it into production

You know, like Intel frantically redoing its chipsets and motherboards because rambus isn't working out - it's the kind of thing that can just kill profits.

Thank goodness AMD and its partners have had months to tweak and fiddle their designs, with no unexpected changes other than the accelerated ramp up of chip speed, but they were expecting 1GHZ copper soon anyway, so they are ready.

Dan


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