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To: Paul Engel who wrote (84436)	12/30/1999 8:56:00 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573092

Re: "Doesn't the Sony Playstation II EMOTION CPU chip occupy MORE THAN TWICE the real estate of a Coppermine?" I believe the quoted sizes for the CPU (240mm2) and the graphics synthesizer (279mm2) are in .25um technology. Plus, the graphics chip is about 1/2 embedded DRAM. I would have to believe these chips will ultimately be built in .18um groundrules so it's not as bad as you may think. THE WATSONYOUTH

To: Paul Engel who wrote (84436)	12/30/1999 10:24:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573092

Paul, Doesn't the Sony Playstation II EMOTION CPU chip occupy MORE THAN TWICE the real estate of a Coppermine ? It also has more compute power than a Coppermine. In my original note I was referring to very low cost embedded cores which occupy about 10% of the silicon area, but perform more than 50% as fast as top of the line desktop processors. Scumbria