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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (77176)	4/15/2002 7:05:36 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 275872

"Then doesn't that beg the question," Sorry. I cannot come up with even a wild guess why they laid the chip out that way. I haven't been able to find a die photograph of a Palomino, so I don't know how the elements on the chip are arranged, but I do note that a Morgan is very rectangular while a Palomino is more squarish sandpile.org sandpile.org But, for the TBred to be a 'dumb' shrink with an additional 256k of L2 cache tacked on and wind up right at 11mm is also stretching credibility a bit too much. So it looks as if they changed the chip layout. Maybe it is something as mundane as the packaging equipment handles die better when one dimension is around 11mm. Or maybe it maps onto the wafer better. Or maybe they like messing with our heads...