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To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (82560)	12/9/1999 11:12:00 PM
From: Charles R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572159

TWY, <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> That was timely. I just was musing what process folks will say about this. I think your statement reinforces my belief. If this hypothesis of barely 1GHz holds, AMD could have a leg up of 200-400MHz before Intel's 0.13 kicks in. If AMD has the wherewithal to exploit this there will be a lot of happy folks on this thread. Chuck

To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (82560)	12/10/1999 8:56:00 PM
From: Saturn V	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572159

Ref -"The 1.16GHz SRAM indicates not much headroom past 1GHz. I think they will reach 1GHz with Coppermine but it will not be easy " I think that you are assuming that the SRAM is running at the same clock speed as the processor clock. Surprisingly (unlike the Celeron) the SRAM on the Coppermine runs at half the processor clock speed. Thus the SRAM will not be the bottleneck for the processor. Thus there may be more headroom than you think. I think that design tweaks on the logic circuitry will also give a significant speed enhancements. So in my mind a 1GHZ Coppermine in Q2 2000 appears probable. Regards