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To: grok who wrote (70073)8/27/1999 6:22:00 PM
From: Elmer  Respond to of 1573889
 
Re: "Sure. But Intel has less speed margin because they have this down to a science. If they didn't have it down to science they wouldn't be shipping 600 MHz at 0.25u. Those parts would just be lost in the speed margin for the 550 MHz bin."

It's pretty easy to test for a new speed bin on a purely synchronous device, such as a processor. The 550MHz part has a cycle time of 1.81818 ns while the 600MHz part has a cycle time of 1.6667 ns. Minus guardbands of course.

EP


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