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To: Elmer Phud who wrote (156889)	4/19/2005 5:25:23 PM
From: Rink	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Elmer, what's the die size of Nocona (it was different than Prescott, right?)? Smithfield is supposed to be two Nocona's. Regards, Rink

To: Elmer Phud who wrote (156889)	4/20/2005 4:13:03 AM
From: DDB_WO	Respond to of 275872

Elmer - packaging the Smithfield is still not as easy as it seems. You have at least to create a FSB connection between the 2 dies in the package additional to connecting the FSB to the contact pads. For the DC Opteron a relayout is necessary, but the amount of work put into this is surely not different than for going from 130nm Opteron to 90nm Opteron with different die size, because the DC Opteron still only has to be connected to 2 external DRAM channels and up to 3 HT links - as usual. Everything else is connected on die (that's why the cores are mirrored and one MCT/HT-controller is missing - because the cores are connected to this single one).