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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems
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To: E_K_S who wrote (32162)5/22/2000 8:43:00 AM
From: rudedog  Read Replies (1) of 64865
 
Eric - this is a pretty strange statement. Processors have a "speed curve" which is the range of speed which the processor can run at while remaining in spec. Typically the result is a bell curve (no surprise there) with yields for design center speed determined by how close the process gets to the target speeds.

Having the design center BELOW the peak of the curve is good news - more parts qualify at the speed target, and the higher speed parts can be culled out and sold at a higher spec.

But the notion that the processor is "too fast" is just crap. SUNW could bring the products out at whatever design speed they had, using parts from the lower end of the speed curve, and introduce re-designed faster systems when those are available.

I hope they clarify what they mean, the statement as it stands is nonsense.
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