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To: Khon Truong who wrote (23788)6/4/1997 11:29:00 AM
From: Howard Bennett   of 186894
 
Khon:

It is important:
1) less dissipation of heat from the chip.
2) increase in cpu speed without increasing too much heat dissipation
3) use in notebook computers without increasing in size.
4) cheaper to produce

1) and 2) are not mutually exclusive. Doesn't increasing the clock speed cause more heat? Thus making the chip thinner create a cooling problem.

My point is (really just tongue-in-cheek initially) -- how small do these things have to be? And isn't there a way to increase speed without spending time and money on footprints? The DEC Alpha chip for example -- is a faster chip...but with a different chip architecture.
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