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To: Joe NYC who wrote (28732)	2/16/2001 1:06:57 AM
From: kapkan4u	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

<I don't know why they are skipping 1.6 GHz. > Why do you think they are skipping 1.6GHz? <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.> Looks like they bumped the Vcc on for all GHz to improve bin splits. Kap

To: Joe NYC who wrote (28732)	2/16/2001 6:47:05 AM
From: Gopher Broke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

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 The Vcc change is so that Intel can release some P4s at 1.7 GHz on the .18 process. This will be a very low volume launch along the lines of the P3 1.13, just so that they can claim to have met their projections. The reason they will not ship any 1.6 processors is simply because the 1.7 GHz will be shipped at a ridiculously high price to keep the demand down. There is really no point in doing the same with a 1.6, when the binsplit is bad enough on the 1.5. The 2.0 GHz will be on the .13 process and achieving the speed should be much simpler for them. The challenge there is their aggressive timescales for introducing the new process.