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To: Scumbria who wrote (9095)	7/7/1998 8:47:00 AM
From: wmf	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11555

>>National has made statements that the die size of PCOAC will be >>quite small. If so, yields should not be a problem for them. The >>more serious problem is likely to be time to market for a very >>complex chip. Do you have any info about how small ? Where will they get their memory technology from ? Going to a very small die will be challenging because that will require very small linewidths. At those linewidths execution and indeed yield will be the issue for sure. At a given design with given linewidts there is not much of an intrinsic die area benefit to the "system-on-a-chip" technology except maybe some bond pads.