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To: Joe NYC who wrote (18830)	11/13/2000 12:42:16 PM
From: andreas_wonisch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Joe, Re: When Mustang arrives and power consumption drops, AMD can resume the MHz ramp. Are you sure Athlon can't go much higher because of heat issues? Since Palomino should reduce power consumption significantly, it should achieve much higher clock speeds if heat would be the only issue. Maybe the design is just maxed out around 1.5 GHz on the current 0.18mu copper process. Overclockers can get current Athlons from Dresden to around 1.1 - 1.2 GHz, so I assume this is the current sweet spot in Dresden. It's somewhat strange that Palomino can't clock much higher (as of AMD's roadmap) if heat was the only issue. Maybe they are only sand-bagging? BTW, concerning those P4 rumors: I heard about 2 GHz in Q1 from an independent source, too. However, I also heard that current production CPUs can't go much higher than 1.6 GHz and since 1 GHz P3s would become very unattractive with P4 at 2 GHz I doubt that. Andreas