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To: Dan3 who wrote (111975)	10/1/2000 1:44:26 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

Lewinsky-Dan - Re: "It might also have something to do with it having a much larger core than then PIII. P4 has a much larger core than Thunderbird, and is 217 mm2. There are postings on Aces Hardware message board suggesting that the P4 was hoped to be 170 mm2 and use local interconnect, but that Intel had problems with the process and had to fall back on a non-LI version that was developed concurrently as a backup. The suggestion was also made that if Intel could get its LI process to yield, they could quickly drop the die size of the P4 back to 170 mm2" This is 100% bullshit. Some yackel on SI postulated this bull shit, the AMD Cheerleader threads picked it up as gospel, and now you regurgitate from the AMD cheerleader thread as if Moses had made it the 11'th commandment. Get this - even if the Pentium 4 is 217 sq. mm., it is only 14 sq. mm larger than the 0.35 micron Pentium II - and Intel sure made a helluva lot of those. So don't expect that large die size to be a problem for Intel. Paul