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To: pgerassi who wrote (215153)	10/27/2006 12:45:49 AM
From: eracer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: And how fast is the latest at TSMC for CPUs? Here they are at just 400MHz at 150nm: ieeexplore.ieee.org AMD K7 Tbirds were at 1.4GHz using 180nm copper. 130nm SOI pushed that to 2.6GHz A64 4000+ 939. Your link requires membership so I couldn't view it, not that it matters. No doubt it was some senseless apples-to-ukuleles comparison. Hey wait, I can use it to "prove" TSMC can build faster CPUs than AMD. Your link supposedly says 400MHz @ 150nm. Transmeta says 1.1GHz @ 130nm for the TM8620. Wow, we have just "proven" that a baby step from 150-nm to 130-nm results in a huge 2.75x increase in frequency. From that we have "proven" that TSMC would be capable of producing 4.5-5GHz CPUs @ 65-nm that only use about 20W of power. Oh, and the low frequency of the Geode GX "proves" AMD can't design x86 CPUs with integrated graphics with clock speeds higher than 400MHz. I can "prove" it here: amd.com Oh wait, AMD probably doesn't manufacture those. No doubt they'd be at 2GHz @ 1W if AMD did.