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Re: Three-Level Metal

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From: John Wilkes
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1991 00:54
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In article <13560@pt.cs.cmu.edu> lindsay@gandalf.cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay) writes:
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>So, is the i860 really the first? And how many of the upcoming
>superscalars will be three layer?

The MIPS R6000 ECL processor, R6010 floating point controller and R6020
system bus chip are all three layer metal.

-wilkes  <wilkes@mips.com>
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Subject: Re: Three-Level Metal
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