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Old June 24th 03, 09:10 PM
bill davidsen
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Default What's coming for us at 45nm

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Keith R. Williams wrote:

| Let's just say that only bleeding-edge fabs that produce chips
| with _large_ unit volumes can be economically be built. One can
| do high value chips with smaller volume in such fabs. Indeed
| someone has to pay the light bill. ;-)

Someone made a case a few years ago that bleeding edge works only for
CPUs, because they will sell even at a high price, and memory, because
you can make a lot of chips of really small size.

I won't try to recreate the arguments, but they seemed valid.
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