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

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (59923)5/28/1999 1:06:00 PM
From: Charles R  Respond to of 1574207
 
Jim,

"You are expecting .18u K7s at 650 in July August. That would surprise me. Not
650 but the .18u that soon.
I belive the 500-550-600 K6-IIIs will be due to a somekind of partial shrink, not
true 18u. That said maybe someone can explain a "partial shrink."?"

I do not mean to imply that they should be shipping 180nm volumes in July. I am assuming they have proved it out internally and substantially increase 180nm wafer starts.

As for the partial shrink, I take it to mean 0.22 but I wouldn't bet on it.

Chuck



To: Jim McMannis who wrote (59923)5/28/1999 1:12:00 PM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1574207
 
Jim,

maybe someone can explain a "partial shrink."?

A partial shrink would mean taping out for the new process with the old database, and modified design rules.

A complete shrink would most likely involve a complete relayout of the chip, which is much more time consuming.

Scumbria


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