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To: fingolfen who wrote (147501)	11/12/2001 12:56:55 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Fingolfen - Re: "The oxygen implant system will give you an SOI wafer. The system does, however, have numerous problems. The oxide layer is irregular, which can eat up some or all of your performance gains depending on transistor architecture. The greater (and more frequently encountered) problem is damage to the EPI silicon because of the high-energy implant. This damage causes yield fallout. The only way AMD is going to make SOI work is to move away from the oxygen implant method (if indeed they were every planning on using that method). " I think this SOITEC announcement is AMD's admission that they indeed have succumbed to REALITY - that SOI has more DOWNSIDE than UPSIDE. Maybe they will rename their Hammer to "Light weight Mallet" instead ! Paul