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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (146892)	11/6/2001 11:34:39 AM
From: maui_dude	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

BMW, Thread, Re : "Many believed that AMD was narrowing their gate lengths on their .18u process up to and past the levels of .13u" I can understand that this hybrid can catch upto AMD only if either : 1. They will no longer be able to do that in future (why can't they mix .13 interconnect with .09 gate in their .13 process coming out soon) ? or 2. Intel starts doing what AMD is doing and get a half step ahead from where they currently are. I would appreciate some insight from a 'process' guy/girl on why AMD is able to do the hybrid process and Intel is not (or has not) ? If Intel were able to do that, wouldn't that have prevented the performance crown AMD got last year (briefly) with Athlon ? Thanks. Maui

To: wanna_bmw who wrote (146892)	11/6/2001 11:37:42 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

RE: I'm thinking that .13u SOI will help them to get to 2.0GHz, and maybe slightly beyond. .13u bulk won't get them past the 1.73GHz that is supposed to be the last "Palomino" to be released next year." You a funny mon...lol Intellabbees said the same thing when K6 went to .25 and .18 and when Athlon went from .25 to .18. At any rate...the rule of thumb on the next process for Athlon is 30%-40% clock increase. Even 25% would take it to 2 Ghz...from 1.6 Ghz... OTOH, this would be at the mature end of the process.