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To: Saturn V who wrote (91916)	11/8/1999 7:24:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Saturn V, However we both agree that Coppermine should be capable of 1GHz + speed next year. Very informative post. Miller capacitance. Got to get that Miller C down. So, here we go again, what are home users going to do with 1 GHz processors. I mean of what value are they except for the "mine's bigger than yours" thing vs. AMD? Of course, coming from me, this post is half tongue in cheek. Half? Tony

To: Saturn V who wrote (91916)	11/8/1999 8:23:00 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: "This new 0.18micron device is indeed novel. You assumed a ten percent improvement in speed based upon the ten percent improvement in IDSAT. However this the novel notching on this device appears to give a much lower Gate Overlap Capacitance, reducing the Miller Capacitance. This should increase the speed much more than expected from IDSAT alone." My take is the extremely high drive currents are the result of very highly doped shallow extension junctions which result in considerably lower external resistance. Such extension junctions would ordinarily result in extremely high overlap capacitance. Hence, the notched profile to lower overlap capacitance and maintain extremely low external resistance. Will this get them to 1GHz? Maybe, but not sure. THE WATSONYOUTH