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To: Barry Grossman who wrote (98376)	2/7/2000 9:18:00 AM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 186894

Barry, Re IBM ``Interlocked Pipelined CMOS One gigahertz will be commercially available within one year, three and four gigahertz will take three to four years to be commercially available.' Another flashy IBM announcement, let's see where they go with it. One GHz in one year, won't be the first, or probably the second. IBM made a big splash with copper, and nobody else seems to be able to yield with it yet. Silicon on Insulator was another flash in the pan, maybe. To increase speed, IBM researchers decentralized the clock, using locally generated clocks to run smaller sections of circuits. The design thus allows faster sections of circuits the freedom to run at higher cycles. It also significantly reduces power requirements. So, it sounds like small sections of the chip will run at the higher speeds, but not the main functions, e.g., the pipeline and cache access of a CPU. As a WAG, not a big deal. Tony