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To: Richard Wang who wrote (26268)	11/30/1997 9:00:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572605

<How about .25u process? Both companies has had about the same experience with it. Would Intel still have an advantage when they shrink?> Intel is in production at .25u, AMD is only sampling. My guess is that the gap will widen. AMD has not yet gotten the .35u process working right, so it's not reasonable to expect the .25u to come up clean. Yousef and Paul have made the case that AMD never got the .6u process running right before they went to .35u. You saw what happened. Why expect anything different? EP

To: Richard Wang who wrote (26268)	11/30/1997 9:38:00 PM
From: Yousef	Respond to of 1572605

Richard, Re: "How about .25u process? Both companies has had about the same experience with it. Would Intel still have an advantage when they shrink?" Intel has been shipping the Tillamook chip in their .25um process since September. AMD won't be shipping any volume for the next 6 months ... this gives Intel about a 9 month "head start". BTW, Intel's .25um process will produce higher performing CPU's (higher frequency) than AMD's .25um process. In fact, AMD's .25um process matches more closely the performance of Intel's .35um process !! Make It So, Yousef