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To: Scumbria who wrote (128125)2/22/2001 10:36:30 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 186894
 
Scumbria, <Too bad that P4 is twice the die size of Athlon>

Athlon debuted at 180 mm2, but that didn't dampen your constant praise of the design.

Besides, one of Intel's product lines which are still strong despite the economic downturn is Cascades Xeon, and its die size is a whopping 350 mm2.

Wait 'til you find out the die sizes of Merced, McKinley, and Madison. Knowing your line-of-work, you'd probably have a fit!

Tenchusatsu

P.S. - Do any of your neighbors work on McKinley?



To: Scumbria who wrote (128125)2/22/2001 11:47:25 PM
From: Elmer  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 186894
 
Re: "Too bad that P4 is twice the die size of Athlon, and Intel tied it exclusively to dual-channel RDRAM. (Probably one of the dumbest decisions ever made in the semiconductor industry.)"

You're delusional. P4 isn't tied exclusively to any memory architecture. And the dumbest decision ever made was AMD's choice of bus architecture to mate to K7. AMD locked themselves out of the server market. Dumb dumb dumb.

EP


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