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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (28017)	1/19/1998 4:33:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 1573841

Jim - Re: "So if AMD had Intels technology they could already have K6-300s?" If AMD had Intel's technology, THEY WOULD BE INTEL. They're not. Re: "the design limitations are on the K-6 vis a vis speed and .25u process." Hard to say - Their circuit layout has been reported as sub-optimum - with Metal 1 being used for Power supply and ground busing - instead of interconnect. Also, their L1 cache could have been laid out closer to their execution units - where it is needed. At the product launch, AMD made a big hullabaloo about their CAD capability - about how quickly they could change the K6 design and implement those changes. I wonder what happened since then? The K6 shrink to 0.25 micron was supposedly already done at that time. That leaves only the K6-3D chip being produced for the past year. Paul