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To: Scumbria who wrote (98698)	3/16/2000 12:31:00 PM
From: Pravin Kamdar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570918

It just occurred to me that Intel may have shot itself in the foot with Willy's 2x ALU and was wondering what you thought. You earlier made the argument that 3 Ghz operation would be difficult at best due to minimum transistor switching times and clock skew issues. It seems to me that if Intel had left the ALU at 1x, they would have a much easier time of scaling the whole chip up to 2 Ghz and beyond. But, at 2 Ghz, the ALU is at 4 Ghz. Do you see this as a limiting factor? Thanks, Pravin.