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Fingolfen -

just don't buy the marketing hype here. TMTA has a processor with great power consumption, poor performance, and no clear roadmap to overcome the fundamental process issues facing everyone else in the industry.

Intel can field products with great power consumption numbers as well, if customers want ultra low voltage P3s. How do they matchup head to head, mip per watt so to speak?

Your other point about being at the mercy of foundries is well taken. They're just not going to change the receipe for a TMTA any more than UMC was going to do it for AMD. Higher cost, lower performance/quality is what you get.

EP