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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: kash johal who wrote (41609)11/16/1998 11:53:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) of 1575354
 
<Tench, I believe that you are wrong and this could be significant for the K7.

Kryotech currently sell a cryo-cooled Alpha workstation souped up from 500Mhz to 767 Mhz for around $10K.>

And how many of those Kryo-Alpha's are sold every year? Very few, I'll bet, which is fine for a low-volume business like Alpha chips.

<WRT to reliability of Kryotech's products - I simply don't know but it would seem to me it would be easy to lower clock speed if temp. sensors show abnormal rise. I imagine that's how they do it.

There is No RELIABILITY issue running CMOS devices cooler in fact the device reliability improves dramatically over running in a hot environment.>

I have a hard time believing that the problem is as simple as adding a high-tech air conditioner right onto the package itself. But this isn't my field of study, so I could be wrong. All I know is that if I were in charge of buying workstations for a particular project, and I needed the fastest performance available, I would still have a hard time trusting Kryotech products to do my heavy-duty calculations. To me as a consumer, Kryotech is still a company which is best suited towards hobbyists. It's a reputation thing; I'm sure you'll understand.

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