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To: kapkan4u who wrote (28731)	2/16/2001 12:56:16 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Kap The Vcc operating voltage of the P4 has been increased from 1.7v on B-2 to 1.75v for all C-1 frequencies. I can't help the feeling that things will turn very ugly for Intel in the next two years. I don't know why they are skipping 1.6 GHz. Going to 1.7 GHz is a 13.3% increase in clock speed, which to me is a significant jump. The extra 100 MHz is not going to make that much difference. The next planned jump to 2 GHz is actually a 17.6% increase, and I have hard time believing that Intel will pull it off, since they are having hard time getting to 1.7 GHz. Joe

To: kapkan4u who wrote (28731)	2/16/2001 7:32:52 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: The Vcc operating voltage of the P4 has been increased from 1.7v on B-2 to 1.75v for all C-1 frequencies. Well, they've publicly announced that the P4 architecture is "infinitely scalable" so it couldn't be that they need to do this to run at higher frequencies, they must just like the number 1.75 more than 1.7. According to Bunny's list of overclocks, if you take the voltage up to 2.05 and submerge it in liquid nitrogen, P4 will run a little over 2GHZ. What could be more infinitely scalable than that? :-) Dan

To: kapkan4u who wrote (28731)	2/16/2001 9:54:40 AM
From: Petz	Respond to of 275872

re: Intel jacking Vcc to 1.75. I already pointed out to Paul Engel that reaching 2 GHz on 0.18u was doubtful given the fact that a 2 GHz P4 would consume over 69 watts at 1.7 volt, 2 GHz. Message 15333702 I said this about supply voltage: Of course this calculation gets blown out the window if Intel has to jack up the supply voltage* to overclock their chip to 2 GHz.* Now that Intel has done that already before even reaching 1.7 GHz, the chances of a 2 GHz P4 on 0.18u process ever appearing are next to nil. Petz