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

To: Charles R who wrote (77233)	10/26/1999 6:32:00 PM
From: Process Boy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571102

Charles - <Now, getting back to my question, you very well know that I was expecting the answer in technical terms - still waiting.....> * Front end may already be .18. By contrast, Intel's shift to .18 was a total process revision of the front end that resulted in a massive improvement of transistor characteristics vs. .25. If they do in fact implement an effective, total process revision of the front end over what they are doing now, it may well be a different story. Going by some data, some gut on this one, that the front end they introduce on their ".18" is going to be an incremental improvement at best, as opposed to a massive process change. * Going to .18 means new interconnects. Even though the paths are shorter, unless they really luck out, they will still be chasing down speed paths / RC delayed circuits. This is situation is not atypical. * The main reason I said one speed grade is that those are the official signals coming out of AMD. Could be 2, I suppose. Example: MOT and G4. That was a really big pop, wasn't it? All IMO. PB