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To: Scumbria who wrote (93473)	2/16/2000 1:35:00 AM
From: Process Boy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570940

Scumbria - <I'm there every day designing microprocessors on leading edge technologies. There is absolutely no way that you can run a state machine at 3 GHz in 0.18u at room temperature.> I believe they said the demo today was at 1.5GHz. I know we are going round and circles. I will personally will let you rant about this, until a better explanation comes out how and what the 3GHz ALU is all about. PB PB

To: Scumbria who wrote (93473)	2/16/2000 2:10:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570940

SCUMbria - Re: "I'm there every day designing microprocessors on leading edge technologies. " Oh yeah? Well, what microprocessors have you designed - or helped design? Paul

To: Scumbria who wrote (93473)	2/16/2000 10:45:00 AM
From: Process Boy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570940

Scumbria - <I'm there every day designing microprocessors on leading edge technologies. There is absolutely no way that you can run a state machine at 3 GHz in 0.18u at room temperature.> Well, I asked someone in the know on this, and I can report that the circuit in question really does run at 2X the base frequency. Two people confirmed it. It is a special kind of circuit that I cannot disclose all of the details on. However, I can probably say that important components of the circuits include 1)localized, and 2)number of stages. The gate delays and the inverter delays of the circuit were relayed to me, and they are quite impressive. I wish I could say more, 'cause it's pretty neat stuff, but I can't. I'm sure it'll come out at some point. PB