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To: EricRR who wrote (114131)6/4/2000 6:13:00 PM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1578012
 
Ratbert,

Beyond the issue of pipelining, I'm not familiar with the methods of designing a chip to run faster.

Pipelining and custom circuitry are the fundamental tools of a microarchitect designing a high MHz part.

Designers rarely worry about power or heat in the first implementation of this type of design. K7, Alpha, Willy and Merced provide good evidence of this.

Scumbria