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To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (163045)	3/28/2002 12:52:24 AM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

TWY, "Please point me to the specification" developer.intel.com Get the pdf, see page 29. "I can't believe this stuff will ever get shipped." It looks like they are shipping the stuff: there are 42 entries on pricewatch for 2.2 NW. I appreciate you taking time for this analysis. Thanks, - Ali

To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (163045)	3/28/2002 3:27:25 PM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 186894

TWY, I have a question (or two): You say that there is a spectrum of devices centered at 60nm, and the Vt varies steeply along the spectrum. Then you said that they need to shrink the process further to fix the problem. Is not it true that after the shrink the similar spectrum will occur but centered around, say, 54nm, so the wings of distribution will go to even smaller Leff, with ever smaller Vt, at this will only alleviate the problem? Also, you say the devices are typically 4um long, which is a factor of 100:1 in geometry. Yet all pictures usually show a single slice of that transistor. So, the question how homogeneous the device might be along the the channel? What about the edges of the channel? Is there any leakage caveats there? More, Intel presentations show structures called "halo implants" which are intended to reduce the leakage, specifically the leakage. In the same time the feature size of this architectural element is 1/10 of the gate Leff. Since the implant is a chemical kinetics process happening in (turbulent?) atmosphere of tool chamber, is not it reasonable to expect much higher level of local fluctuations in the size and chemical quality of this element, which may impact the leakage adversely? How about so-called "gate leakage" and possibility of variety of fluctuational defects around it? I am just making those obvious questions up. How they are addressed in general manufacturing? I feel somehow that the unfamous "red brick wall" is much close than Intel's management wants us to believe. Regards, - Ali