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To: fingolfen who wrote (142010)	8/20/2001 12:40:22 PM
From: Charles Gryba	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Sorry, but the Intel 193nm Steppers have been delayed. NOT the AMD ones. Constantine

To: fingolfen who wrote (142010)	8/20/2001 9:02:51 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Bottom line: Most of the speed in a process generation comes from transistor improvements (i.e. physically shortening the gate length). If AMD has already moved to a 70-80nm gate width while at the 0.18 micron node, they have already used up most of the "bang" from a 0.13 micron transition. I have seen some press releases where AMD claims a 50nm channel length for their 0.13 micron process, but I seriously doubt that this is the physical polysilicon width. There are a lot of tricks one can use to extend 248-nm lithography down to 70nm, but it gets a LOT harder to go below 70nm without moving to 193nm lithography tools, and as so many of the boo birds here are happy to post with regularity, the 193nm steppers have been delayed... You have a penchant for using gate length and gate width interchangeably. You really need to think in two dimensions. A gate has length and width and they are not interchangeable terms. THE WATSONYOUTH