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To: Process Boy who wrote (91655)	2/5/2000 12:42:00 AM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578198

Re: "[comments about AMD having problems manufacturing large on-die caches due to leakage problems] Just unsubstantiated rumor." What isn't a rumor is that Intel has been manufacturing HP processors with 1.5Meg on-die cache for over a year now. Apparently Intel has no such problems manufacturing huge on-die caches. If a company (AMD?) is running their process on the ragged edge you would see two clear signs. #1 they would have to jack up their Vcc to get it to higher frequencies and #2 you would see higher standby or static currents due to sub-threshold leakage currents. This appears to be what the rumors are reporting. EP