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To: Dan3 who wrote (57783)	10/8/2001 9:29:45 PM
From: fyodor_	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Dan: It also explains why Intel has been getting so little benefit from their .13 process in terms of power consumption. PIII saw almost no drop in amperage when it moved from .18 Aluminum to .13 copper. It looks to me like Intel has gained quite a bit in terms of power consumption with the move to .13&#181 Cu. If you take a look at Intel's data sheets: Vcc TDP 1GHz mobile PIII: 1.7V 24.8W 1GHz mobile PIII-M: 1.4V 20.5W While the amperage is virtually identical, Intel managed to squeeze in twice the L2 cache and hardware prefetching! All that and still managing a 17% drop in power consumption! Nothing to sneeze at in my book. For reference, AMD managed to cut Athlon power consumption by around 32% with the .25&#181 Al --> .18&#181 Al transition (both without integrated L2 cache). All of this was in the amps department, with core voltage still stuck at 1.6V. -fyo