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To: milo_morai who wrote (89142)	1/24/2000 12:56:00 AM
From: Process Boy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573024

milo - <PB based on Dan3 and Kash's info. Dresden looks to be .15um with .18um groundrules?> Actually, you would want to say that the other way around. Anyway, could be, I don't know yet. .15um generation was taken off the SIA maps. It's essentially a .18 variant. Process generation designators, e.g., .18, .15, .13, etc, are becoming misnomers. Intel's .18 generation has features that are ~.13. This varies from manu. to manu. The designators are more meaningful to determine the equipment set generation, regardless of feature size obtained. That said, and in light of the speculation above, we really don't know if AMD is using .18 generation tools or .13 generation tools, if they're calling the process .15, because technically, according to SIA, there is no .15 generation. Anyway, I would suspect that the equipment set is .18 generation, but I don't know for sure. Just a WAG. EDIT: Actually, I just looked at the SIA map, and it lists 150nm gates in the .18 process generation. PB