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

To: Shane Geary who wrote (87929)	1/18/2000 4:03:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 1574787

Shane, Thanks for the affirmation. $7 per chip is good bait to make them work hard. I am sure Intel is at the forefront in this tech, even so control of this feature is difficult, but easier than making the gate .1 from top to bottom, at least you have the .03 cushion on the top layers which cuts the capacitance a little(?) as well. No-one seems to know(and those that know will not admit) if these problems are why Intel is tight on parts at this time. From my point of view it looks like Intel knowingly trod a perilous path driven by the Athlon and they are taking the yield hit because they need the speed the few good notched P-IIIs give them in the hopes that development work will up the speed and yield inch by inch, or is it submicron by submicron? And of course at all times no-one from Intel will admit that the emperor has no clothes. Bill