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To: Ali Chen who wrote (4556)	2/22/1998 5:35:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6843

Ali - Re: "Paul's remark about too "tight rules" is just ridiculous, as many of his other remarks. It is the FACT that the K6 parts WERE manufacturable up to 266 MHz even on 0.35 um technology -" You are clearly illustrating your lack of semiconductor knowledge - you don't understand the distinction between design rules, circuit layout and minimum feature size. Stick with screwdrivers, Ali - you may have a better understanding of that particular technology - although that is itself debatable. Paul

To: Ali Chen who wrote (4556)	2/22/1998 10:29:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6843

Ali; I agree with you, I had read about the Alpha bus solution in general terms. It is one of the end runs around the slot 1 that might become the standard that all the others make to. I can see what Paul refers to by analogy to circuit board fabrication:, if you make it too tight and you get bad etches/dendritic prongs etc you can get 75% of your boards need to be fixed after test. In a similar manner I suspect that if AMD tries to do the same they also will have problems(different ones of course, but analogous to the shorts and alignment problems of PC Boards), So I can see a slight loosening to ease spacing requirements, giving a bigger die, with less failures and the need to test run it as well, this will give a greater % passing chips. I do not know what other problems it will produce. Bill