Courtesy of Paul Engel:
Press Release
AMD Introduces New Process Technology
Wednesday October 2 , 11:59 pm ET
AMD engineers have been working long, hard hours in the laboratory to improve AMD's technological capabilities and keep pace with their competitors as well as their own marketing requirements.
To that end, AMD has developed a new wafer technology that will be used to produce the new products introduced by AMD over the past few months.
This new technology is a variant of the Silicon on Insulator (SOI) approach. The new material that AMD has harnessed for the insulating layer is PAPER - and the new process is appropriately dubbed SOP - for Silicon On Paper.
"Silicon On Paper is the perfect technology for producing our new paper products" says William Siegel, AMD's Chief Technology Officer. The performance of AMD's Athlon processors on SOP technology is highly scaleable, according to Siegel, and by proper adjustment of the Paper Properties, speeds of the CPUs built on this processor can be tailored to whatever AMD marketing personnel need to compete with Intel.
A new wrinkle to this technology, one that adds flexibility to the design engineers using it, is the full erasability of the programming elements used in the device logic structures. In fact, each processor comes equipped with its own eraser, similar to that of a number 3 1/2 hard rubber eraser, compatible with the paper technology.
" With the new rubber erasability and our Paper Substrate, , speeds and power consumption and even benchmarks can be adjusted in the field by AMD marketing representatives", according to Siegel. The new erase technology allows for no smudge residue, another benefit, leaving no traces of document alteration in case of future potential litigation.
AMD will host a Webcast today to launch the new SOP technology and new SOP processors. According to Richard Heye, vice president of platform engineering and infrastructure at AMD, availability of these new products is immediate and new products can be downloaded from AMD via standard FAX (plain paper is recommended) at 1-408- 982-6164.
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