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To: milo_morai who wrote (150150)	11/28/2001 4:36:49 PM
From: tcmay	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

"IBM has CPU's with SOI right now. INTC has none. INTC's proved nothing yet." Which explains why IBM is buying so many Intel processors for PCs, servers, business systems, and even supercomputers. And which explains why IBM's vaunted SOI process is not in any of the PowerPC chips it sells to Apple, a company desperate to get beyond the 867 MHz level it is currently topped-out at. Rumors of a 2 GHz G5 PPC, supposedly based on SOI, but production problems have made it impossible for Apple to base a high-volume machine on. Meanwhile, IBM is buying tons of Pentium 3s and 4s, Xeons, and mobile versions. But the labs are reporting that SOI will be the technology of the future. We should believe it when volume shipments begin. --Tim May

To: milo_morai who wrote (150150)	11/28/2001 4:41:13 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Milo, Nice try, but we were talking about fully depleted "thin-SOI", so IBM's ability to get partially depleted SOI working is irrelevant to this discussion. You've probably never considered the possibility that Intel might have also gotten SOI to work in the lab. Common sense would suggest that their plan to search for methods superior to their competition might have prompted them to study SOI in detail. But like Kapkan, you probably believe that the whole SOI craze has sent Intel scrambling for a solution, and quite by chance on an overnight brainstorming binge, Intel created the Terahertz transistor. It's funny how your AMDroid fantasies allow this idiocy to make sense to you. wbmw