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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (21682)	12/6/2000 1:42:03 PM
From: andreas_wonisch	Respond to of 275872

Dan, Re: Either there's more to Si28 than thermal conductivity or ( more likely) there's much more to the Palomino power story than Si28. I suspect the latter. Si-28 won't offer any advantages concerning overall power consumption and I doubt that AMD has already Si-28 wafers for production. More likely is a drastic cut in power consumption with more classical approaches (i.e. redesign of the core and die shrink). The K7 team and Dirk Meyer have worked on the Palomino core for almost 18 months now. It would be very unlikely that they didn't made any significant improvements. Probably Andrew Thomas did hear somewhere of Si-28, got some Palomino information from his AMD "mole" -- and mixed these things up. Andreas