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To: milo_morai who wrote (93708)	2/17/2000 12:47:00 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571806

RE:"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."... If Intel doesn't want to confuse the consumer, they better clarify things. Interesting that KapKan4u revealed all this (different clock speed stuff) well before the demo and was laughed at by Ten, PB, Elmer, even Pravin. Pravin I can understand but the other three knew Kap was right and blasted him anyway...yet Pravin is the only one who apologized... Jim

To: milo_morai who wrote (93708)	2/17/2000 1:25:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1571806

Finally the truth comes out- 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. 1. The 1.5 GHz CPU was not air cooled. 2. The fact that an ALU runs at 3 GHz is almost inconsequential. All that an Intel ALU does is 32 bit add, shift, and logical operations. Running that tiny piece of the pipe at 3 GHz will have almost no affect on overall performance. 3. The real clock speed was a hybrid 1GHz/500 MHz. Willamette is no threat to AMD for the forseeable future, if ever. Scumbria