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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (92767)	2/12/2000 5:27:00 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1573849

Regarding AMD's 180nm ramp ... there's some confusion on it, so lemme remind you how it's working: It was announced that all Athlon wafer starts as of November 1st were 180nm, and all Athlons shipping out of the fabs were 180nm as of February 1st (and perhaps a few days before that). According to AMD, K6-x wafer starts were scheduled to be 100% 180nm by the last day of 1999. So, assuming that wafer starts as of January 1st were 180nm, and assuming that K6-x has the same fab life as K7 (it probably takes less time, since Athlon has more packaging and stuff), the fabs should be 100% 180nm for K6-x output before April 1st (mind you, doesn't mean that it will be, but this is the assumption based on perfect, as they say, execution)." Cirruslver, thanks I was too lazy to go back and dig up the info. I must say, though, that I had thought all K6 chips coming out after the end of Q4 would be on the 0.18um process......while I know its takes a while for wafers to become chips, I am still not grounded enough in the field to have thought it thru and realized that the 0.18um chips would be making their appearance much later than 12/31/99. But at least I was mostly right. Thanks for the posting. BTW, Tench, are you clear now on this issue? ted