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To: Charles Gryba who wrote (148061)	11/14/2001 11:46:56 AM
From: fingolfen	Respond to of 186894

fingolfen, LOL, you never know. Actually I do have some knowledge in this area, and the industry consensus is that 193nm isn't ready for prime time yet. I've discussed this topic at length in the past, so I don't want to do a rehash here, but I'll give a quick summary. There are many common tricks to make 248nm lithography work down to about 65-70nm: cures, resist etch, phase shifting. None of these are new or particularly revolutionary. Past that point, however, they start failing in catastrophic ways. IF AMD wants to scale their gates to generation + 1, they are "eating their future" as Intel contended in the article on the Inq. Ultimately they're going to hit a wall where the technology for n+1 generation just isn't there and they'll have to try and find speed through other, more expensive methods... like SOI... I therefore don't think it's a coincidence that AMD is moving to SOI with 0.13 micron. 193nm technology is not robust and needs more development (world + dog will need it for 0.09 micron, so it'd better get ready in a hurry!), so AMD is between a process rock and a hard place.