Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[chipdesigner]

No it doesn't sound 'reasonable'. It is just plain wrong, based on what Dirk and other AMD folks have said, and Hans agrees it is wrong:

http://www.aceshardware.com/forums/read_post.jsp?id=120058172&forumid=1

1) The picture used (blue single core) is not a Rev.G it is a
manufacturing prototype which will never go into production.
The empty area below L2 is really empty.

2) The encircled area's are: MicroCode Flash, 2xTag-Rams, 8kB ECC.
Not complex decoders or buffers.

3) Rev. G is supposed to be a dumb shrink. Thus, using scaled copies
of the HiP8 megacells. The blue single core uses all new megacells
from the IBM alliance and is a major re-layout, not a dumb shrink.


Some folks are certainly getting imaginative, though. Rev G just *can't* be a dumb shrink, because that would be so bad for AMD, so let's pretend it isn't!