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To: Charles R who wrote (69606)	8/23/1999 10:52:00 AM
From: Pravin Kamdar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573542

ALL ABOARD!!! The train is about to leave the station. Charles, thanks for the link. We should probably expect that with the tweeking that AMD did to it's 0.25u process (to get the K6-2 to 475 Mhz and for the Athlon release) that it is really closer to a 0.20u process. I would expect one or two speed grade improvement in going to 0.18u (from Tom's results, this means 800-850 MHz), and another one or two in going to copper (900-950 Mhz). Design tweeks are probably good for another two (1000-1050 Mhz). Beyond that, my WAG is that playing with core voltage and extreme cooling would get you to 1.3 GHz in 0.18u copper. I'm hoping that 0.13u copper yields 1.5 Ghz without special cooling. The best news of all is that the Athlon is shaping up to be a very stable processor. This is just the reputation that it needs to crack the server market. Pravin.

To: Charles R who wrote (69606)	8/23/1999 3:54:00 PM
From: Michael DaKota	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1573542

Well my guesstimates were right...:) Along with some other people, I forgot who, can someone post the guess-table of max MHz in '99 again ? I had 800 MHz, 750 is not far of, and the end of the year is still a long way. Seems that intel's hybrid process is inferior to AMD's hybrid process...tssssk....and the p3 600 instabile...well nothing new here ofcourse, just a good rubbing for Pauleron and ClouLessYef . And now they have to make a profit and everyone is happy..;)