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To: kapkan4u who wrote (93429)	2/16/2000 12:06:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1579760

Kap, 1.5GHz core, 3GHz ALUs numbers seem to be solid. What are they calling the ALU? A bit shifter? I can guarantee that the control logic for the integer unit is not running at 3 GHz. The latch delays and clock skew would make that impossible. There are rumors swirling around that it was a specially cooled part built with the experimental 0.13 process. That is incredibly slimy of them to try to create the impression of an air cooled 0.18u part running at 1.5 Ghz. Scumbria

To: kapkan4u who wrote (93429)	2/16/2000 12:38:00 AM
From: Process Boy	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1579760

kapkan - <1.5GHz core, 3GHz ALUs numbers seem to be solid. I spoke to one of the Willamette designers about that. There are rumors swirling around that it was a specially cooled part built with the experimental 0.13 process.> This is absolutely not true. The product was plain vanilla .18 production process. If it was a CD skew wafer or not, I don't know, but that is certainly possible. And as far as I know no special cooling methods employed. PB