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To: Elmer who wrote (108886)	8/29/2000 1:21:31 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Elmer, "This sentence suggests that whenever a chip cannot run at a higher speed, it can be fixed by some work on speed paths. What if the speedpath in question was already worked on and it just can't be improved anymore?" Then they would have know of it's existence and included it in their pre-release validation, one would hope. The fact that they missed it strongly suggests they didn't know about it. Not necessarily. Speed paths are frequently dealt with by stop gap measures. Many times the same speedpath will come back to haunt with each new speed grade. I've seen bandaids on top of bandaids, on top of bandaids.... Sometimes the only way to fix a speedpath is to reorganize the pipeline, which is out of the question at this stage of PIII's life. Scumbria