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To: chic_hearne who wrote (675)	7/13/2000 12:20:19 PM
From: Goutam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Chic, Very interesting stuff from your company - IBM unveils 2GHz Embedded SRAM Hope AMD will be able to get this technology on their chip to reduce existing latencies with their on-chip L1 and L2 caches. IBM credits its CMOS and Copper processes for this achievement. They also say that low-k dielectric may allow them to make further improvements. Since AMD is an adoptee of both techniques, AMD may benefit from this. ebnews.com ______________________ Some interesting excerpts from the above article: [...] IBM Corp. said it has combined line-width circuitry shrinks achieved through 0.18-micron processes, its new CMOS technology, and the low resistance of copper interconnects to develop a 2-GHz embedded SRAM device. [...] The new design speeds access to machine instructions in the Level 1 cache to more than 2 GHz at 34 Kbits with a read access time of less than 430 ps, according to the company. [...] "With this new [technology], the CPU doesn't have to wait for its relatively slow memory to access data," Joshi said. "Currently reported cache SRAMs function well below 1 GHz, with access delays above 600 picoseconds." [...] "We can now migrate to lower line widths without any barriers once we add low-k dielectric materials to the process," Joshi said. "After that, optical [techniques] can be pushed to move beyond the 0.10-micron generation." [...] _____________________________________________________________________ Goutama .