RE: MISC-d Digest V99 #107 (fwd)

[Penio Penev <penev@xxxxxxx>]

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Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 14:51:59 -0500
Subject: RE: MISC-d Digest V99 #107
From: Mindjammer <mindjammer@telebot.net>
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>This is based on a 500Mip .8u core.  Chuck has also done projections
>for .6, .5, .35, .25, .15, and .1.   .35u only runs at 3V and that limits
>the speed so the conservative numbers Chuck gave were 600Mip in .35u.
>Although he said an optimistic prediction might be 2 or 3 times that.
>In any event his conservative projections are around 1Kmips for the
>smaller processes at the moment.  memory access would still be a
>bottleneck since we were talking about SDRAM giving 400Mips in .8u
>they can be pushed faster with a faster process but cannot keep
>up with 1G or 2 or 3G numbers.

MOSIS has a .35u fabrication process that can run at 5v, and a .18u
fabrication process that can run at 3.3v.  What kind of speed could those
processes yield?