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To: Charles R who wrote (43528)	6/9/2001 2:01:46 AM
From: milo_morai	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Chuck how can you assume the transition to Palomino will be the same? Fab 30 is going to be just for Palomino's and Morgan's and it's only 55% up to speed. (Maybe 60%) Fab 25 is going to have to produce Duron's and some T-birds until the end of the Year. I'm not sure that Palomino will be build on Al at fab 25. M.

To: Charles R who wrote (43528)	6/9/2001 3:53:02 AM
From: kapkan4u	Respond to of 275872

<The cutover from Thunderbird to Palomino should be about the same speed as previous two cutovers based on K7 core. If not, there is very likely a problem.> Not so. The differences between K75 and T-bird were very minor -- the addition of the L2. Not even speed-path work was done. On the other hand, the M-tang/Palomino core was completely redone with custom-designed logic for speed and short-circuit evaluations to minimize number of circuit switches and to save power. Also the drive strengths of non-critical path circuits were reduced to minimize power consumption. On top of that we have a bunch of new architectural features like PowerNow, SSE, HW prefetch and TLB improvements. Kap