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To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (73499)	9/29/1999 10:45:00 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572838

Hi THEWATSONYOUTH; Story from October 1, 1999. PC World article Athlon 650 Review: Heads Up, Power Users: Athlon Hits 650 MHz AMD's brand-new 650-MHz CPU, the Athlon, rumbled to speed records on our Windows 98 tests and allowed AMD to pull farther ahead of Intel in the chip derby. www1.pcworld.com -- Carl

To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (73499)	9/30/1999 12:52:00 AM
From: Yousef	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572838

WATSONYOUTH, Re: "It does appear that AMD is using a device design for the .25um Athlons that has thinner gate oxide and shorter channel lengths than Intel's .25um rocess. If so, some of the performance advantage observed to date is due to process and not design." This could be the case ... However, Intel's .18um process will have FET's with physical gate lengths of .13-.14um . The real downside to what AMD has done (.18um FET coupled with .25um BEOL) is that they don't get a smaller die size and thus more possible die/wafer and higher yield/wafer. Intel at .18um will have a device performance advantage as well as a cost advantage. Make It so, Yousef