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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Hans de Vries who wrote (115691)6/13/2000 11:55:00 AM
From: EricRR  Read Replies (1) of 1571872
 
Hans-

Thanks for all your great technical insight! I have a question about your PDF. You hint that Mustang might eliminate a couple of stages of Athlon's pipeline. Why would one want to make the pipeline shorter? Is it to reduce power dissipation?

Also I've asked this general question to a number of people, and I'd like to hear your opinion. Do you think that heat production is becoming more important of a limiting factor in raising clock speed? It seems to me, that with such high concentrations of power dissipation, the thermal conductivity of the chip is not high enough to ensure a reasonable operating temperature. Do you think that such problems could be dogging Willy?
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