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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Yousef who wrote (37072)	9/16/1998 11:02:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571040

"Barrett used his talk as a platform to convince developers that the copper interconnect and Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) processes used by Motorola, IBM and other semiconductor makers are not the way to increasing performance within a microprocessor. Instead, Barrett said that Intel will concentrate first upon increasing the speed of the transistors within the chip, moving to the faster copper interconnect process only in its 0.13-micron generation." Yousef, The first sentence says that copper is not important for speed. The second sentence says copper is faster. Nice doubletalk. Sounds like Intel is running well behind Moto with copper. Scumbria