To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (89595 ) 1/25/2000 8:47:00 PM From: milo_morai Read Replies (3) | Respond to
Tench says:When I said "a small fraction of one million," I meant Athlons manufactured on 0.18u process. Remember that 1M is the total Athlons made in Q4, both 0.25u and 0.18u. The 750 MHz Athlon was the first 0.18u Athlon released, but it didn't arrive until late in Q4. Thus, "a small fraction." Nov 29th was official release date www1.amd.com Just because AMD is completing the transition sooner doesn't mean that they'll be ramped up to 100% at the same time. Transition and ramp-up are two different things. AMD can easily stop all 0.25u wafers whenever they want to, then call that a "100% transition." My feeling is that AMD did exactly that in order to brute-force the ramp-up of the 0.18u process. I guess they decided that 0.18u is so important (speeds, costs, etc.) that it's worth sacrificing 0.25u earlier than expected. "But since you're wondering about Pentium III 800 MHz, you might want to check out your local Fry's Electronics, if you live out here in the west coast. I saw an 800 MHz Pentium III system at my local Fry's last week. It's an HP system going for $2,600. Now how can that be, given that Intel's 800 MHz launch was just a "phantom announcement"?
