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- From: pcarmack@gimp.kpc.com (Phil Carmack)
- Subject: Re: Pentium to be Scrapped?!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.172411.15998@kpc.com>
- Sender: pcarmack@gimp (Phil Carmack)
- Organization: Kubota Pacific Computer
- References: <1993Jan8.114342.16953@nmsu.edu> <dbarber.726545382@crash.cts.com> <1993Jan9.203114.27572@dvorak.amd.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:24:11 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan9.203114.27572@dvorak.amd.com>, tdbear@dvorak.amd.com (Thomas D. Barrett) writes:
- |> 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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- DEC's 150MHz Alpha based systems are running just fine for us in an
- air-cooled system (OK the heat sync is fairly large).
-
- |>
- |> --
- |> |Tom Barrett (TDBear), Sr. Engineer|tom.barrett@amd.com|v:512-462-6856 |
- |> |AMD PCD MS-520 | 5900 E. Ben White|Austin, TX 78741 |f:512-462-5155 |
- |> |"No is yes, And we're all free" ---Tracy Chapman, "Why?" |
- |> |My views are my own and may not be the same as the company of origin |
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