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- From: tdbear@dvorak.amd.com (Thomas D. Barrett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
- Subject: Re: Pentium to be Scrapped?!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.203114.27572@dvorak.amd.com>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 20:31:14 GMT
- References: <1993Jan8.114342.16953@nmsu.edu> <dbarber.726545382@crash.cts.com>
- Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas
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- In article <dbarber.726545382@crash.cts.com> dbarber@crash.cts.com (David C. Barber) writes:
- >Maybe they'll wait and try to get a clock-doubling Pentium running.
- >That would be a nice surprise.
-
- That would definitely be a big surprise... not too many companies have
- the ability to make a 100+MHz part manufacturable. At that frequency
- and with typical technology, the internal clocks stop being sinewaves
- and start being static :) That doesn't mean that something couldn't
- be demonstrated or produced in small quantities with big losses being
- made up elsewhere or with the requirements to use a liquid cooled heat
- sink :)
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