AI
Friday, December 12, 2003 5:38:07 PM
Granted, the 1.8G Dothan will have a 2M L2, but 6% clock increase in 10 months does not look promising.
Clue 1: the comments of the Banias design team in ITJ that
they didn't have time to implement all their new ideas on
how to improve both power efficiency and performance.
Clue 2: the unexpectedly large (compared to Banias's 83
mm2 that is) die size for Dothan given Intel's stated SRAM
cell size in 90 nm.
It may be quite foolish for either AMD or Transmeta to
assume that Dothan is just a 2 MB Banias that can clock
a little faster.
Clue 1: the comments of the Banias design team in ITJ that
they didn't have time to implement all their new ideas on
how to improve both power efficiency and performance.
Clue 2: the unexpectedly large (compared to Banias's 83
mm2 that is) die size for Dothan given Intel's stated SRAM
cell size in 90 nm.
It may be quite foolish for either AMD or Transmeta to
assume that Dothan is just a 2 MB Banias that can clock
a little faster.
