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To: Dan3 who wrote (87541)	9/1/1999 12:20:00 AM
From: Process Boy	Respond to of 186894

dan - <That Intel's .25 was closer to what others might refer to as a .22 or .20 process. Is the same true of the .18? Is it closer to a .15 in terms of many of the feature sizes?> One might characterize Intel's .25 more like a ".20 or .2-whatever". But the rumors and indications I'm seeing is that AMD's current .25 is more like a .16! In Intel's case, the improvements from .25 to .2-whatever, and the development work on the .18 process were done totally independent of each other once the .25 process was transferred to production. However, and I am just guessing here, maybe for an organization the size of AMD, the two process generation development efforts "mix", if you can picture that. You know, the same people working on kind of a dual effort of scaling .25 and developing .18. Again, just a guess. If anybody knows differently feel free to blast my theory out of the water. As far as Intel P858, the IEEE paper lists physical gate feature size at a median 130nm (.13). PB