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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: kash johal who wrote (51086)2/26/1999 4:46:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) of 1575079
 
<This is VERY smart of AMD as Mhz sells>

Well, hopefully the K6-2 and K6-3 have some sort of built-in mechanism which reduces the clock speed should the temperature of the processor gets too hot. If not, AMD is putting a lot of reliability hopes onto a $6.99 heat sink and fan.

At least the fans that appear on Intel processors are generally regarded as high quality. (Heh, when the CPU sells for approx. $500, the cooling better be high quality.)

<I am sure that they ran plenty of life test runs to prove reliabilty for excess of 30 years as is standard in the industry. And the OEMS I am sure are privy to that QUAL data).>

I really doubt that. I think AMD is sacrificing a few years of reliability in order to get to high speeds. No big deal when you look at the whole picture, but this jacked-up voltage for a 0.25 micron process isn't inspiring confidence.

Tenchusatsu
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