(Code)named after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppermine_River , apparently.
replyPOD was pretty rad :) Thanks for the reminder of it (and all the MMX marketing around it.)
P3 Coppermine was 0.18 µm.
P3 Tualatin was 0.13 µm with Cu and low-K.
replySo no, Coppermine had nothing to do with Cu in the process.
Copper interconnects might have been introduced around then, but I suspect the naming is more coincidental than anything.
replyI remember just after IBM got copper interconnects working, there was a stock market dive, I ranted to my partner about how crazy it is for a company to achieve a sought after goal and have its value decrease. The next day there was a news story about the entire market decline being stalled by the force of IBM buying back it's own shares. My partner told me I should rant less and invest more.
Haha, yeah the rumour came around at a time when there was real work going on with copper interconnects which just confused the situation, but the coppermine didn't use them.
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