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To: peter_luc who wrote (29878)	2/28/2001 5:07:21 PM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 275872

Peter, You can't make any predictions about speed of a new process based on core voltage. Lower voltages produce slower switching speeds, but in compensation the smaller transistors require a smaller swing. The actual speed improvement from a process shrink is very dependent on the details of the transistors. Maybe Semicon can comment on the Intel process? (Not likely.) The bigger L2 will help Northwood a lot, because P4 is very dependent on prefetching, which pollutes a small cache. I think that Hammer will be very competitive with any offerings from Intel. Scumbria