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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (55261)4/12/1999 3:24:00 PM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (1) of 1573215
 
Jim,

On the other hand, this looks like a real reach and will have the Intel faithful up in arms and laughs.

From a design point of view, MHz is not interesting, but rather the inverse- which is cycle time. The cycle time at 600 MHz is 1.67ns. At 1GHz it is 1.00ns. This is a reduction in cycle time of only 40%.

It is approximately the same difficulty to go from 600 Mhz to 1GHz, as it was to go from 300 MHz up to 500 MHz. K6 will have accomplished this in about 12 months, without a process jump.

Scumbria
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