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To: kapkan4u who wrote (106224)	4/17/2000 2:07:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574060

Kap, I think you are wrong. Read the article. ALUs have carry-save adders, producing a result in 0.2ns I read the article, and the author is just making speculations. An ALU is an asynchronous device, which should not require any special clocking. Either it completes the arithmetic operation on time, or it doesn't. If a double speed clock is used, it is to service the latches at the input and output of the ALU. The author speculates: Willamette runs at very high clock rates and will likely consume at least twice as much power as P6, or somewhere in region of 60 Watts or more which would put the power consumption in the same range as Athlon. Scumbria