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Many thanks, Alan.

Chipguy elaborated to me on another thread on it, but clearly indicated the effect would only be relevant well beyond 45nm, so there must be another reason. In particular in Layer one. :)

I was thinking it could have to do with the nasty damascene effects AMD has run into at its 130bulk node, that's why I asked if Intel has Al in its interconnects.

If you allow some spin for the fun of it, maybe Intel could avoid the problem finding a way to avoid one level of interconnect altogether. They are quite good at making things as good as they believe is enough - and this as cheap as possible. Occasionally they err on the former one, but barely on the latter one.

K.