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To: fingolfen who wrote (137245)	6/13/2001 1:14:30 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

When everyone was publishing the information about their respective 0.18 micron processes a couple of years ago, the stated gate lengths were on the order of 100-110nm. Intel has released information regarding their 0.13 micron process at the end of last year indicating 70nm gate lengths. I'll have to dig it up, but I read an article indicating that AMD has moved to ~70nm gates with the 0.18 micron back-end for their faster K7-cored processors. I believe TWY was making the point that channel lengths are not all there is to a process generation. I'm sure he'll correct me if I'm wrong. I contend that although he's right about that, channel lengths do dominate speed and AMD's going to .13u generation gate lengths is spending the majority of benefits now. Like I said, borrowing from Peter to pay Paul. They've shot their .13u wad already. EP