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To: Scumbria who wrote (121213)	7/29/2000 8:53:11 PM
From: minnow68	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574332

Scumbria, You wrote "and indicates to me that Willy may never make it to 2GHz, in any technology" The thump you just heard was my jaw hitting the floor. Do you think P4 will not hit 2 Ghz even at .13 micron? Wouldn't skew be smaller with the smaller die and latch delay reduced with the faster transistors? Mike

To: Scumbria who wrote (121213)	7/30/2000 12:09:50 AM
From: Charles R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574332

Scumbria, <If the clock skew and jitter were reduced to 100ps, and the latch delay were reduced to 100ps, that would leave only 50ps to do the ALU operations at 4GHz (2GHz CPU speed.) This is nearly impossible, and indicates to me that Willy may never make it to 2GHz, in any technology.> I have been told by some pretty solid folks a long while back that this design is rated for 2.4G on Intel's 0.13. Is is possible some of the assumptions you are using are inaccurate? Chuck