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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (8497)	11/3/1997 10:23:00 PM
From: Kai-Uwe	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 97611

Folks: It's not just volume that is preventing the use of AMD/CYRX micro-Ps on any major notebook project. Thermally, these chips aren't able to cope with a notebook infrastructure unless there are customers out there that consider making their breakfeast eggs on their laptop as a product feature. If you compare the intel notebook micro-P solution is TAB (tape-automated bonding), basically a thin piece of film onto which the circuit is transposed while the CYRX/AMD chips both are still PGA (at least to my knowledge). The PGA Pentium equivalent micro-Ps will need a big heatsink and a solid ventilation system (desktop fan) which cannot be achieved in a notebook chassis without compromising longevity and potentially performance. In notebooks intel will win hands down anytime... That is one of their fundamental strengths. K.