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To: Process Boy who wrote (75805)10/18/1999 12:56:00 AM
From: Charles R  Respond to of 1572580
 
<I.e., Intel's .25 process even with gates <.25um is still closer to a .25 process. Athlon, with its sub .2um gates is way closer to .18 in the front end than Intel's .25.>

Remarkably close to my assessment of the situation without any expertise on the process side and without having had the benefit of looking at Athlon cross-sections ;-)