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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scumbria who wrote (96866)	3/5/2000 12:44:00 AM
From: Rob Young	Respond to of 1572371

Scumbria, A process engineer writes: "I sat through a presentation [at ISSCC] on EV68 last month that included design techniques, circuit characteristics and a shmoo plot. It's hard to shmoo nonexistent ICs. The only questions left now are 1) when will it be released (hard to beat the K7 to 1 GHz now unless Compaq announces it tomorrow), and 2) at what frequency (its running now over 1 GHz in an aluminum bulk CMOS process and a sub-optimal package), and 3) will it be called the 21264B ?" ---- I believe that there were problems not politics involved. If problems, this is the kind of stuff only a handful of people know about and you run the risk of losing your career if it ever gets back that you blabbed about it, hence a deafening silence. Much like Itanium at 400+ MHz isn't a well publicized fact (but rest assured, they will SOMEHOW get it to 733 MHz by October). Problems are something you don't look forward to but they can have some benefits, more cleanup will result... But EV68 will ship and Compaq will continue to dominate SPEC fp , they are doing that today with .25 micron 667 MHz parts... gets more interesting when they hit 1.5 MHz with on-chip L2 in a .18 micron process ... someday. Rob