Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[chipguy]

AMD does a better job on the speed of their SOI process.

LOL. AMD takes an existing basic design, adds two pipeline and SOI processing and
loses 400 MHz of clock speed and you claim that AMD does a better job on SOI than
IBM?

IBM has taken a 64 bit PowerPC processor design with 34m transistors (RS64) and
ported it from 0.22 um bulk to 0.22 um SOI and got a 22% clock speedup while keeping
the pipeline length the same.

Also, IBM has taken a 180 nm SOI design (POWER4) and shrunk it to a 130 nm SOI
(POWER4+/PPC970) and apparently got a 54% clock speed up. How much of a clock
rate speedup does Barton or Hammer represent over the fastest 180 nm Athlon? AMD
can't teach IBM anything about process or processor design.