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To: Dan3 who wrote (106313)	7/29/2000 9:49:20 AM
From: semiconeng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

A year after the Athlon first shipped, K6 starts are being rapidly ramped down, just like the Pentium took about a year to displace the 486. A year after Willamette first ships, it looks like Intel plans to select Coppermine to run on a substantial portion of it's latest process. Dan It's not unusual at all for intel to use an established product to qualify a new process. Perhaps you "forgot", or were not aware, that CuMine was not the first product to run on the 0.18u process. Intel used "Dixon Shrink", the 400MHz Mobile P3 to qualify 0.18u, because that was a well established product on 0.25u. Same thing. SemiconEng