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To: SilentZ who wrote (65346)	12/12/2001 12:25:21 AM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 275872

Re: Remember Paul, Elmer, and Wanna_bmw chortling over AMD's decision to go all out on SOI over a year ago? Huh? Not sure if anyone else has pointed this out, I just got back from a trip and I'm catching up on posts, but Wanna's only been here a few months. AMD went all-out implementing SOI in production about a year ago, the chortling by Paul, Elmer, and Wanna_bmw has been going on from then up until about a week ago (Wanna_bmw started later than Paul and Elmer). Then, the chortling suddenly stopped - first replaced with the claim that newbie Intel's SOI "terahertz" transistors were many times faster than experienced AMD's SOI transistors, then just flat out shut down by AMD's revelation that it was already making faster "terahertz" transistors. That AMD plans to be all SOI in less than a year, while Intel is 2 to 3 years away from even starting, was rather disappointing news for "the boys." We've gone through a similar progression with Rambus and copper, but those stumbles by Intel appear trivial compared to missing the importance of SOI.