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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (93706)	2/17/2000 12:31:00 AM
From: milo_morai	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1571761

Air Cooled or Not Air Cooled, that is the question! Milo "Posted 16/02/2000 11:47pm by Mike Magee in Palm Springs Willamette chip cores run at 3GHz Intel said today that there are two arithmetical logical units (ALUs) within its up-and-coming microprocessor codenamed Willamette that each run at 3GHz. The rest of the microprocessor runs at 1.5GHz, Intel representatives said. Yesterday, Intel demonstrated a Willamette processor which was not air cooled and which clocked over 1500MHz. At the time, Dr Albert Yu, senior VP in charge of desktop architecture, said that one ALU had been specially optimised to run faster than the rest of the microprocessor. But Intel was chary of saying that Willamette will run at 3GHz, and, in fact, kept describing the microprocessor as 1GHz/500. The reason for this, according to representatives, was because end users and consumers would be confused by describing the chip as 1.5GHz. Meanwhile, Daniel Wolff, editor of Chip, managed to find two shots of the Willamette die. You can find these pictures here. © " theregister.co.uk