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To: fyodor_ who wrote (37311)	4/25/2001 4:21:11 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

"There's always more to a shrink than RC delay " Of course there is. But there is a good chance that RC delays may dominate as the geometries shrink, Scumbria claims that some sample processes he has seen slow down as you go from 0.18->0.15->0.13. Now these were likely from a foundry and they aren't really known for the fastest processes, but... And this might be the reason that AMD canned plans for going to 0.15 micron and the reason why they need new equipment for 0.13 micron, their process couldn't get improved performance at these smaller geometries.