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To: Paul Engel who wrote (61351)	6/11/1999 1:41:00 AM
From: Cirruslvr	Respond to of 1571935

Paul - RE: "That is pure BULLSH*T . Typical of you." Nope, typical of you. Message 9789226 "AMD is having all the SpecInt95 and SPECFPU95 benchmarks re-written and recompiled for the K7." Whether or not you were kidding, you wrote that, which is what I remembered.

To: Paul Engel who wrote (61351)	6/11/1999 1:54:00 AM
From: Cirruslvr	Respond to of 1571935

Paul - Since you are so worried about voltages, here is something for you to see. I was emailed this from someone whom I have no idea. The person asked for this to be posted to you. The person wrote - "Intel jacked up the voltage from 1.8V to 2.0V on their P856 process. In fact they talk about it in this article that I am providing a link to." The person says that while AMD re-speced their process during the production, Intel just did so before production, per the link. From page 3 of the link: "All of the benchmarks discussed in this section are based on 1.8V transistor test conditions, and the P854 reference assumes the P854 and P856 run under nominal 2.5V and 1.8V conditions. To enable further performance enhancement, the reliability characterization of P856 was converted to a 2.0V nominal criteria. On products that can tolerate higher power consumption due to increased supply voltage, the 2.0V operation improves performance. Microprocessor characterization shows that there is an additional 9-10% frequency enhancement at 2.0V compared to 1.8V. At certification, P856 met the reliability goals for 2.0V operation." They did this while (from page 5) "A 5% linear shrink, known as P856.5, was applied to P856.0 in order to reduce die cost." intel.com