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To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (4274)2/6/1998 12:41:00 AM
From: J. Plesha  Respond to of 6843
 
Anyone know who makes the equipment AMD is using for the .25 process. Especially the cleaning stations. Thanks

Joe P.



To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (4274)2/6/1998 1:31:00 AM
From: Elmer  Respond to of 6843
 
<I wonder what kind of performance this cooled chip offered on a 66mhz bus?>

Who cares? The point is that Intel demoed a chilled Pentium II 1 year ago at a speed of 400-451mhz on .35u technology. Now, 1 year later AMD demos a chilled 375mhz K6 on what should be a more advanced .25u process. It should be obvious that this mirrors exactly the state of affairs of their production processes. AMD is much later and much slower, in both their technology demonstrations and their production material. Paul and Yousef have been telling everybody this for months. Brian and Petz have saying "stay tuned".

EP



To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (4274)2/6/1998 2:35:00 AM
From: Paul Engel  Respond to of 6843
 
Kevin - Re: " I wonder what kind of performance this cooled chip offered on a 66mhz bus?"

Clearly, the overall performance was limited by the external bus speed and main memory access times.

Thus, "benchmarking" results would depend on the type of program that was run - whether or not it could execute completely from L1/L2 cache or if it had to go "off chip" to main memory.

Paul