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To: Elmer who wrote (115637)	6/12/2000 7:53:00 PM
From: milo_morai	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1575784

Elmer are you talking about MERCED? Are you still stuck at 800Mhz? Where' all those Piii's above 733Mhz? M

To: Elmer who wrote (115637)	6/12/2000 8:28:00 PM
From: Petz	Respond to of 1575784

Elmer, re:<sorry to break the news to you Petz but there is no improvement in clock speed. I know I know.... just wait> You'll notice two things if you look at the power dissipation specs 1. The GHz TBird consumes 16-19% less power than the GHz classic Athlon. 2. The GHz TBird has 0.05 volts lower core voltage 3. Its pretty obvious that the Vcc could be pushed to 1.85 volts like the Athlon Classic and give 3 more speed grades. In fact theres a footnote in Table 10 of section 6.9 of document 21016.pdf which gives 1.85 volts as a potential core voltage, but no TBirds are listed as using that voltage! 4. Process tweaks should get another 10-20% 5. There is a huge drop in quiescent power (STOP GRANT MODE, as they call it) from 9 watts to 5 watts. This may tell us something about the device physics -- someone, please comment? Petz