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To: Paul Engel who wrote (159457)2/20/2002 1:41:19 PM
From: wanna_bmw  Respond to of 186894
 
Paul, Re: "Maybe you can do the same for Intel's 0.09 Micron version of Madison."

Intel hasn't released any information about their .09u process. But even if they did, I was under the impression that the successor to Madison, called Montecito, will be more than just a simple shrink. My guess, given Intel's Microprocessor Forum presentation on Prespeculative Computation, is that Montecito will have some sort of multithreading implementation based on that technology. Other than that, though, it's anyone's guess (though, personally, I'd like to see them push clock frequencies some more by widening the pipeline a little - say, to 12 stages).

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To: Paul Engel who wrote (159457)2/20/2002 1:49:05 PM
From: wanna_bmw  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
Paul, Re: "Good analysis. I hope you're close to being correct."

Also keep in mind that although McKinley at 420mm^2 is a large die, it isn't like Intel is inexperienced with manufacturing die that large. Intel's massively successful Cascades processor, which is basically a .18u Pentium III with 2MB of on-die L2 cache, is close to 375mm^2, IIRC, and Intel sells many of them.

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