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To: pgerassi who wrote (215177)	10/27/2006 9:48:02 AM
From: eracer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: Geode (plain) is fabbed at TSMC. The Geode NX is K7 based and was made at Fab 30. Oh wait the first is a 400MHz CPU on 130nm Al bulk and the later, 1.5GHz on 130nm Copper. I think you would agree that a K7 is a good OOO x86 CPU with a good FPU. Another of your arguments shot down in flames. First you claim TSMC's "latest" CPU is 400MHz @ 150-nm, even though TSMC made 1.1GHz Efficeon CPUs for Transmeta. Then you compare frequencies of a 400MHz 1.1W system SoC Geode GX to a 14W 1.5GHz Geode NX to "prove" the only thing holding back GPU speeds from doubling is TSMC vs. AMD. I believe you also "proved" that AMD's SOI process is broken with your apples-to-banjos comparison. Intel CPUs topped out out 3.8GHz, AMD at only 3GHz so far. Therefore Intel would be able to clock an ATI integrated GPU 25% faster than AMD even without SOI.