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To: EricRR who wrote (4791)	8/13/2000 3:15:32 AM
From: semiconeng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Could you please explain why Willy only has a shelf life of 6 months? What provoked the early successor with more pins? Is it part of the good old ways to leave a giant hole (1.1-1.2GHz in volumes) in the middle of the speed distribution? And was Willy was designed so well that its bin splits start bottom at 1.3GHz? Or is there another reason for not wanting to sell the chip at those speeds? I heard that 1.3 GHz was originally the starting point of Will-Am-Ette, but now it has been dropped, and 1.4GHz is the lowest intro speed. Why? I don't know. Not made here. I think CuMine will get squeezed again on 0.13u to fill in the hole from 1.1GHz - 1.4GHz. 1.13GHz was basically accomplished by simply shrinking the current CuMine Die. No speed path changes at all. I have no doubt that Tom Pabst got a bad chip. Unfortunate, but I know that nothing was changed to achieve 1.13GHz. Simply shrinking it again from 0.18u to 0.13u Process should achieve a similar speed bump. As far as extra pins, all I hear is "talk". And I don't even believe it, so I wouldn't be so stupid as to repeat it, simply to be ridiculed AGAIN on this thread as some "16 Year Old Punk". SemiconEng