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Chipset Question
Listened to Pauls Chat to Tim Thornhill, which left this question:
Paul mentioned that Grantsdale and Alviso Chipsets would help filling 130nm Fabs for couple of reasons. Are these dies (in particular the integrated grafics versions) significantly bigger than previous Chipset-Dies? (Numbers anyone?)
TIA
K.


Hummmm, I don't have die size numbers, but in any case, it's probably no big deal for 130nm intel fabs. My guess would be that as 90nm ramped up, intel shifted the 130nm fabs to chipsets. I think it was 5 130nm fabs? Plus, since 130nm is a "Mature Process" (did ya catch that doughsf30/upc/conductor?) there probably have been major cost reduction projects going on for a LONG time now. There shouldn't be any capacity concerns with chipsets at this point.