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To: Robert Scott Diver who wrote (6275)	3/21/2000 6:43:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 8218

Robert, >You imply that INTEL and AMD will be at 2 GHZ at the same time as IBM. The article you objected to my enthusiasm about included "THAT DAY is not far away. IBM Corp.?s Enterprise Systems Group already has working prototypes of its forthcoming Power4 processor, a chip that officials say will boost the performance of high-end servers used for Web hosting and e-commerce." Perhaps I overlooked information regarding 2 GHZ Intel and AMD prototypes and you would like to point me to the appropriate links? I don't have a link, just Moore's law. 18 months from March is Sept. 2001, about when IBM might have 2 GHz, according to that article. Moore's law has been incredibly accurate for over 30 years. Still, it probably depends on 0.13 micron line widths for Intel and AMD, just as IBM mentioned as a dependency. Hey, competition is good. It pushes you to get ahead of all the rest. Change of pace: it seems that up until this 2 GHz prediction, IBM has been eschewing very high clock speeds, and instead designing their CPU chips to accomplish a lot more per clock cycle. Must be the case because their recent S80 (is it?) beat Sun equivalent machines by 40%, or something like that in benchmarks, while having pretty low clock speed (350 MHz?). Maybe IBM wants to join the party with the very long pipeline, much higher clock speed chips? Tony