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To: Yousef who wrote (35137)	7/27/1998 9:16:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 1572753

Yousef, I have never seen any description of the potential of each improvement, such as copper, dielectric,Fet drive etc to make this judgement personally. From basic principals reducing capacitance will have a powerful effect, reduce the K by 40-50% and you reduce the capacitance apace. At the same time will a 40-50% reduction in resistance give you the same gain as a 40-50% reduction in K. I would get the 40-50% reduction by using the same size conductor in Cu as in Al( I do not have a look up table for Cu/Al resistance for the alloyed metals as used in the industry, I think it differs substantially from the elemental value, esp for aluminum. Other things like diamond substrates, GaAs tech are doubtless also capable of faster speeds and better heat flows, when will they ever show? I see them in niches for military stuff and cel phones. We are closing in on the cel phone frequencies now. Where will silicon plateau? 1-2 Ghz?. You are right that Intel will chase the easy gains first and then optimize the others. My comment is they will work on all of them at the same time and then combine them when appropriate. I do not think Intel will leav stones unturned as they have the resources to do all of these at the same time. Resources AMD does not have due to the earnings vice Intel has them in. Bill