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To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (228887)	3/25/2007 1:14:21 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

"But they had the same power specification at 90 nm. " That they did. And what was the speed of those processors? "Shouldn't an effective shrink dropped the power point lower by 25% or more ?" It depends. AMD's claim for APM is that it allows them to continually improve the transistors over time so that the last transistors on the trailing process (in this case 90nm) is the same as the first transistors on the new process(in this case 65nm). So you wouldn't see either a speed nor power consumption advantage with the first few chips. If you look at the transition from 130nm to 90nm for AMD, that was the case then. It seems to be the case now. So, assuming that they aren't lying, it seems like things are going like they projected. Now, over time, things will change. If they don't, then you can pronounce the process as being borked.