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To: tcmay who wrote (136863)6/7/2001 2:02:07 AM
From: Dan3  Respond to of 186894
 
Re:WHY, THEN, is SOI not being used to boost the speed of the PPC? Why is IBM not selling a 1.5 GHz version?

PPC core is very different from AMD/Intel cores (tiny die size, tiny power use, very short pipeline). It's apples and oranges, err, apples and X86.

:-)

Dan

PS - The interesting fact remains that AMD and Intel have left the rest of the CPU designing/building universe far behind these past 2 years.