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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill Jackson who wrote (77176)	10/26/1999 3:11:00 PM
From: Charles R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571172

Bill, <is this to reduce the heat?> In the case of Athlon, I think the reason AMD went to 1.6V is to keep power dissipation in check. They may have pushed the process quite a bit along the way but, from my non-process expert view point, there will be some improvement in the front-end with the 0.18 process right off the chute. I neither have the data not the expertise to quantify that jump though. Folks who have seen Athlon cross sections have a better idea on the exact process details but I do not remember anyone sharing that knowledge on this thread. Chuck