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To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (88101)	9/10/1999 3:37:00 PM
From: Process Boy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

TWY - RE: Dixon Process. .25 and .18. The Dixon Product was dumb shrunk and implemented as the first .18 product, released earlier this year. The dumb shrink version's Fmax at 400MHz caused quite a stir on this thread, as in, "that's not very fast for .18". Well, no it isn't. There is a design / process interaction that limited Fmax on the product. Again, this is a dumb shrink. I will let you guess what the limiter is. Pretty basic. The Quick Shrink Dixon on .18 was intended to a) kick the tires on .18, and b) viable .18 Mobile revenue generator. PB

To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (88101)	9/10/1999 4:07:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

TWY - Re: "Could you please remind me what the INTEL "Dixon":process is again. thanks, " Dixon is a DEVICE code name - NOT a Process. The original DIXON was a Pentium II, 0.25 micron, with 256K on-CHip L2 cache - essentially a Celeron with double the size of the Celeron's 128K on-chip L2 cache. The DIXON QS was a "quick shrink" of the original Dixon to the 0.18 micron process but using the original layout and only 5 metal layers. Both the Dixon and the DIXON QS were sold into the Mobile Pentium II market segment as Pentium II PE's. Paul