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Article #104Re: MMX (was Re: when will pentium pro be affordable?)
From: Cosmin Corbea
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1996 00:00
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Dmitriy Veremeev wrote: [...] > > > >Unfortunatetly this whole disussion may be irrelevant as TI just > >introduced a new technology. The 0.18 Micron process. It packs an > >incredible 125 million transistors on one chip, making it possible to > >put several boards, video, audio, hard drive, ram, etc. on to a single > >chip. I will post the newsfeed following. > > > > Well, it's not SO exciting since AFAIK PPro uses 0.25 (or will be > using in the near future) So that TI tech. is ~30% "better". > Or did I understand it in a wrong way? > BYE. > Yours, > LodeRunner (Dmitry Veremeev). E-mail: minister@rinet.ru Shouldn't that be "(~30%) squared" better? AFAIK, it's the chip area that's important, so the difference between 0.25 and a 0.18 micron technologies is more like 90%. Regards, Cosmin Corbea cosminc@kalman.com
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