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To: Jeff Fox who wrote (62236)	6/17/1999 10:51:00 PM
From: Process Boy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571687

Jeff Fox - <stack two transistors and manage their gate voltages to avoid hot electron stress.> [Maxwell Smart voice] Ahh Hah! The ol' stacked gate trick! Nice post. PB

To: Jeff Fox who wrote (62236)	6/18/1999 1:40:00 PM
From: Petz	Respond to of 1571687

Jeff, re: K7 "on-chip regulator" Man this sounds fishy. Think for a moment, if the processor is running 1.6v internally on all transistors and is doing this supplied by a 2.5 -> 1.6v on chip regulator then that regulator is burning many watts of power! All that extra heat and it is all total waste. This is a dumb thing to do unless your forced to be socket compatible with a 2.5v motherboard. Perhaps this is an interim thing? Perhaps the main regulator for the K7 is not "on-chip" but in the slot cartridge. When the K7-0.18µ comes out, the motherboard can continue to use the same 2.5 volt supply. Petz