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To: fingolfen who wrote (135226)	5/16/2001 3:24:20 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Not necessarily. AMD's most advanced fabrication equipment is in Dresden. If AMD is pushing its transistors to 0.13 micron-like dimensions, the equipment in Austin would not have the resolution... Yes, that makes sense, but it's still an "if". Also, if the Dresden process is already using .13u-like transistors, just what likely boost will they see when they eventually move to a full .13u process? Not too much it would seem. All speculation of course and if Dresden and Austin use the same litho equipment then we are still at a loss to explain why the AL process topped out at only 1GHz, unless Copper really did provide a significant boost. Is the only difference between the 2 processes the metal layers? If not then perhaps AMD didn't want to spent the resources developing the faster transistors for their AL process? EP