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130nm was used to make the Athlon XP, Athlon 64, Pentium M, Pentium 4 and PowerPC G5 in the 2001-2003 timeframe [0]. So at the peak of 130nm's performance spect
by DCKing 6y ago
130nm was used to make the Athlon XP, Athlon 64, Pentium M, Pentium 4 and PowerPC G5 in the 2001-2003 timeframe [0]. So at the peak of 130nm's performance spectrum, it was able to produce stuff that can still run 2020 software quite okay. The Athlon 64 is probably the best 130nm silicon produced in its heyday and it's in the ballpark of a Raspberry Pi 4 (which has a 28nm SoC) in single core benchmarks.
I don't think this program is meant or likely to produce high frequency 100mm2+ chips (and it's worth remembering those chips had a lot of engineering effort put in them outside of manufacturing process) but it should permit chips of somewhat decent performance. It's a very generous thing!
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/130_nm_process https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/130_nm_process
- walrus01 6y agoAs I recall from that generation, also the first models of AMD opterons, commonly built into dual socket motherboards. For the time they were very speed competitive with the Intel option.
- innocenat 6y agoI think at that time, Opterons was THE server processor.
- walrus01 6y agoI recall the dual socket (everything was single core at the time) Xeon being particularly unimpressive. In fact it was somewhat of a step backwards from the better thermals/power efficiency of a dual socket, 1.13 to 1.4 GHz / 512KB cache Tualatin pentium 3.
- jcun4128 6y agoI see I remember using Dimension 4500's that had Pentium 4