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To: EricRR who wrote (112033)	10/1/2000 8:59:48 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Ratbert, Is AMD abandoning this philosophy with Mustang? What exactly is meant by a "hand layout." Athlon used hand placed cells. I don't know if they are going with a more custom methodology on Mustang. Scumbria

To: EricRR who wrote (112033)	10/1/2000 9:44:35 PM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 186894

Eric, Is AMD abandoning this philosophy with Mustang? What exactly is meant by a "hand layout." The rumor is the custom designed logic is what is going to help Athlon achieve lower power consumption and higher frequencies. I would not say that AMD is abandoning anything. It's just an evolution of a mature design, attempt to squeeze more performance out of it. I think AMD will go back to the standard cell design for new chips to improve time to market. Joe