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To: kash johal who wrote (52200)	3/9/1999 8:19:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572108

Kash, It would have made eminent sense to have a 0.18 micron k-3 by now (and in Cu it be running at 500-650 Mhz today). Jerry and Atiq described their latest speedpath fix, as correcting a situation which caused yields at 300MHz and 400MHz- but not 350 MHz. This implies a race condition. Race conditions do not scale to different processes as you would expect. In any CPU design, porting the layout to a new process can take a year or more. You are making very coarse assumptions, but the engineers at AMD have to live in the real world of very tiny details which can make or break a product. There is no reason to assume that K6-2 or K6-3 could be running any faster than they are now. Scumbria