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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (157248)	1/29/2002 2:24:02 PM
From: denni	Respond to of 186894

see this at isscc next wednesday: sscs.org 20.6 The Implementation of the Next-Generation 646 Itanium Microprocessor 11:15 AM S. D Naffziger Hewlett Packard, Fort Collins, CO G. Hammond Intel, Fort Collins, CO The processor incorporates over 220M transistors on a 465mm die and operates at >1.2GHz with an 8-stage pipeline in a 0.18µm process. It has three levels of on-chip cache totaling over 3.3MB providing >32GB/s bandwidth at each level.

To: wanna_bmw who wrote (157248)	1/29/2002 2:27:23 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

"So how did AMD get their processor in that thermal envelope?" Same as they have done with the rest of the A4 line, they cut the voltage. Much the same way that Intel does it with their mobile processors. No doubt, they, and Intel, has to tweak their process and it probably effects yields. "I would wait before you assume that Compaq skipped the Pentium 4-M for their business line." or it could be that the extra power that the mobile P4 requires made the laptops too bulky. But we will see...