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To: Mani1 who wrote (82557)	12/9/1999 10:58:00 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572015

Re: "Yes it sure sounds that way. I wonder if they are just engineering samples or real production units. Now I am curious to know what kind of fab conversion it will take to convert Intel's fab to this. Is it already being done? Or the "coppy exact" is yet to get started. How long will the conversion take? At another part of article they only talk about SRAM's being tested on this notch process." There is no fab conversion necessary. It's just a modified gate etch process. Same tooling. Consider it all ready done. The 1.16GHz SRAM indicates not much headroom past 1GHz. I think they will reach 1GHz with Coppermine but it will not be easy. So what can AMD do and when??? The investment world awaits. THE WATSONYOUTH

To: Mani1 who wrote (82557)	12/9/1999 11:07:00 PM
From: Charles R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572015

Mani, <At another part of article they only talk about SRAM's being tested on this notch process. "Ghani added that Intel uses a 16-Mbit SRAM design as a test vehicle for its 0.18-micron process node, and that such an SRAM, operating at a 1.16-GHz clock frequency, has been built using the notched-poly process. More details on that circuit are due to be revealed in February." I wonder, it sure is interesting.> SRAMS typically run significantly faster than CPUs on any given process. When Intel was running PIIIs on 0.25 lines the full speed SRAMs were coming out of their 0.35 lines (or at least I gather it used to be that way). In context of CuMine I wonder what this means - may be one of the process guys will comment. Also note that even these frequncies are below the rumored Athlon Cu frequencies. Chuck