Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

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

To: Mani1 who wrote (115470)	6/11/2000 4:05:00 PM
From: eplace	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571949

Some rumors here about Transmeta hitting 1 GHz by year end. I went back and hadn't seen it posted and take it for what it's worth because it's from the Register. theregister.co.uk Ed P.

To: Mani1 who wrote (115470)	6/11/2000 6:29:00 PM
From: FJB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571949

Mani, AMD's '99 analyst presentation indicates that the HiP6L process at Dresden has 100nm gate lengths. A couple of years ago, few people would have believed that is possible with 248nm technology, but now they are in high-volume manufacturing. It is plausible that ASML's 0.70NA KrF scanner with RETs can take them below 100nm. The next big step would be an ArF scanner with a NA 0f 0.70 from ASML, in conjunction with 4kHz ArF lasers, and more robust 193nm resists. I think all three of these might come together in early 2001. It would not be surprising to see AMD push the current tool set further than anticipated. That seems to be par for the course these days all due to RETs. numeritech.com photronics.com Bob

To: Mani1 who wrote (115470)	6/11/2000 8:02:00 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571949

Re: I am fairly confident that we will not see any volume shipment at 0.13 I don't think any of us is expecting significant volume, but they did claim .05 feature size in November of 1999 using 193nm equipment: 50nm Gate-Length CMOS transistor with Super-Halo: Design, Process, and Reliability Bin Yu, Haihong Wang, Ognjen Milic, Qi Xiang, Weizhong Wang, Judy Xilin An, Ming-Ren Lin Advanced Micro Devices, Inc,. Sunnyvale, CA 94088 And they did show a slide showing .13 production being started this year. The slides can be downloaded from here: amd.com They are in William Siegle's presentation. Regards, Dan