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To: fyodor_ who wrote (66570)	12/29/2001 9:23:20 AM
From: TechieGuy-alt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Elmer: Athlon will not get much of a boost from the migration to .13u because they're already using .13u transistors. fyodor_:Didn't an independent organization report that AMD and Intel had basically the same feature sizes in their top-of-the line chips only a quarter or so ago? (I cannot recall the name of the company, but it apparently specializes in analyzing other companies' chips and selling the information). A similar claim was made when the Athlon was migrating from the 0.25 to 0.18 micron. I think the same folks (or their buddies) said that the 0.25 Athlon at ~800MHz was already using 0.18 structures and would not see much speed increase at 0.18! Maybe they define a 2X raw clk boost as "not much". I don't have the time or the energy to go search for these posts, but they are out there if someone wants to go look. I'm sure they will make for interesting review. TG