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To: fyodor_ who wrote (57792)	10/9/2001 9:03:49 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: It looks to me like Intel has gained quite a bit in terms of power consumption with the move to .13µ Cu Power goes up at the square of voltage. Cache uses very little power (check the specs of Intel's otherwise identical chips with differing cache sizes). Accounting only for the voltage drop, assuming no gains whatsoever for either copper of .13, that 24.8 power consumption at 1.7v should have dropped to about 17 watts. While they are able to run at a lower voltage (we've seen this from copper at Motorola, IBM, and AMD too), Intel's power consumption on their .13 copper process, all else being held equal, is actually higher than on their aluminum .18 process. Leakage at .13 seems to be surprising everyone.