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Unread 06-13-2004, 08:59 AM   #39
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Originally Posted by AngryAlpaca
You can't standardize something like this, unless you can standardize actual die sizes. There is the Athlon T Bird, the Palomino, the T Bred A, the T Bred B, the Barton, the Willamette, the Northwood, the M0 one, the Prescott, the Athlon 64, there's soon to be a 90nm version of the Athlon 64, and the list goes on. I imagine that I missed quite a few. Then there's the issue of the heatspreader.

Why 12 or 13?
He is talking about standardizing testing procedures and equipment used so test beds can have comparable data. If everyone use the same die size on their die sim the results would be one step closer to comparable.
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