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To: Ali Chen who wrote (149459)11/26/2001 1:51:06 AM
From: wanna_bmw  Respond to of 186894
 
Ali, Re: "Good point! But hold on a second, didn't someone insisted here that AMD already uses 70-nm transistors? FYI, interconnects do not leak, transistors do. Sorry to burst your bubble."

Maybe you can explain this:

AMD supposedly has 70nm transistor gates, but the manufacturing is still based around .18u rules. You seem to think that the leakage is entirely based around gate currents, but aren't there a number of other areas prone to leakage in submicron transistors? Won't shrinking the entire node result in greater leakage levels for AMD with their bulk .13u process?

wbmw



To: Ali Chen who wrote (149459)11/26/2001 1:51:51 AM
From: Robert Salasidis  Respond to of 186894
 
No difference - you can't have it both ways - either AMD uses smaller channels, and can't achieve better than 1600 MHz, or their leakage is as high as the current Intel 0.13 um process.

Bubbles burst both ways I guess.


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