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To: FJB who wrote (22976)1/15/1998 11:22:00 PM
From: Pravin Kamdar  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 33344
 
Bob,

I thought that National said that they will be using TSMC's design rules when they ramp 0.25u in Portland.

Pravin.



To: FJB who wrote (22976)1/16/1998 12:02:00 AM
From: Jim McMannis  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 33344
 
Bob,
RE: "This is a problem that the merger has mitigated somewhat.
There is nothing preventing Cyrix from optimizing designs for
the National/TSMC design rules now."

If so, how long until they optimize design and get equal clockspeeds to pentium IIs? Or just one speedgrade behind which would be fine. I'd still keep the PR rating.
Jim



To: FJB who wrote (22976)1/16/1998 12:15:00 AM
From: StockMan  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 33344
 
Bobby,
Re -- There is nothing preventing Cyrix from optimizing designs for the National/TSMC design rules now.

Yeah, since they couldn't do it on IBM's process, what are the odds they can do it on another process in a timely manner?

Brian Halla has it right. Use the darn 6xstuff for building process expertise, for the real thing system on a chip.

Face it guys, 486GX and 6xstuff and PRcrap are all history.

Stockman


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