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To: Ali Chen who wrote (6385)	5/29/1998 3:13:00 PM
From: Time Traveler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6843

Ali, apparently you have never laid out any integrated circuits (IC) or any printed circuit boards (PCB). For your information, the rule of thumb is: - The more transistors you add to the IC, the less dense it has to be due to added complexity in the wiring (metal layers). - The more components you add to the PCB, the less dense it has to be due to added complexity in the wiring (traces). Given K6's (0.25um) density of 8.8M / 68 mm^2 = 0.129M / mm^2 and K6-2's density of 9.3M / 81 mm^2 = 0.115 mm^2, there is an 11% in transistor density reduction going from K6 to K6-2 but the metal wiring density would easily go up by that much due to such extreme complexity of processor. Time Traveler personally does not believe K6 and K6-2 cores are any different. The aggressiveness in design rules thus still applies to the core of K6-2. Perhaps, AMD learned a lesson by utilizing a more conservative design rule for the 3D add-on. Time Traveler