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To: milo_morai who wrote (96496)	3/5/2000 9:09:00 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572197

Re: "What is your take on T-Bird? Do you like it?" I like it. But, I'd like it a lot more if I could buy one now. Do they still plan on 256K L2 cache? I saw somewhere that it might possibly be 512K. I see they also plan on a new device shrink/optimization. I hope they are doing OK and that we will see this chip by June. I got a close look at a .18um Al 750MHz (98mm2) Athlon from Austin. The processing looked (clean) nominal with no obvious abnormalities. The local interconnect is tungsten DAMASCENE as expected (Engel was wrong) and looked very good. The level pitches are not particularly aggressive for .18um groundrules. Also, the SRAM cell size is 5.95um2 which again is not very aggressive for .18um groundrules. With redundancy, the 256K L2 cache should yield in the high 90s%. I wonder if they will go with 512K. Of course, since this is an Al Athlon from Austin, I didn't get to see the Cu BEOL. I know the transition from .25um to .18um Cu BEOL went very smoothly at IBM so there are no fundamental problems. But, until AMD ships them in quantity, who is really to say?? I still don't believe Moto is shipping any .18um Cu BEOL CPUs or SRAMs. THE WATSONYOUTH