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To: Scumbria who wrote (58321)	5/16/1999 10:53:00 PM
From: Charles R	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574343

Scumbria, "Another indication of the ability of high school kids to understand microprocessors." I have always wondered how AMD is being able to clock its shallow pipeline parts within a speed grade of Intel's deep pipeline parts. And, Paul has once suggested that this was because AMD already implemented smaller gate widths, CoSi and some of the other benefits of 0.18u technology. And it is a well known fact that AMD has been able to push things a little further with the help of the 200 mv volatege boost. Anand has highlighted one more factor - the external L2 cache. I am not sure if I have heard anyone else point this out before. Based on the above, it seems likely that Intel can yield higher frequency parts in 0.25u and significantly faster parts in 0.18u. I guess one could debate what kind of yields intel would get on the higher speed grade parts and what the RAM would cost if they have to buy it from Mot or some other source. Is that what you are suggesting or do you fundamentally disagree with what Anand is saying? Care to expand the thinking behind your statement? Thanks, Chuck