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To: tejek who wrote (94271)	2/19/2000 2:43:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574262

Ted, its sounds after reading your interpretation of the Willamette's capabilities, the only way AMD can keep up with the Willamette, at least in the GHz race, is to design a whole new chip. Is that a correction understanding? And you also indicate that you think that the Willamette will easily scale to 1.5 G....can you hazard a guess as to how much higher it can go at full maturity? AMD does need a new chip for next year. I doubt that K8 will be ready in time, so there is going to be a period where Intel regains the sole performance lead in 2001. I see Willamette scaling to 2 Ghz. The next problem that they (and everyone else) will run into is clock skew. Unless the clocks can be managed to guarantee synchronicity across the design, getting past 2 GHz will be impossible. IBM presented a paper on this topic at ISSC this year, and it will become the buzz of the industry soon. Scumbria