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To: Gopher Broke who wrote (50587)	8/9/2001 9:20:35 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 275872

What is to stop AMD clocking a little internal divider at 3 GHz and drive the CPU off the resulting 1.5 GHz signal? Would that require a redesign of the chip and a big delay just for possible marketing points? Tim

To: Gopher Broke who wrote (50587)	8/9/2001 10:01:01 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

What is to stop AMD clocking a little internal divider at 3 GHz and drive the CPU off the resulting 1.5 GHz signal? I don't see that would be "resorting to a level of deceit". For starters you'd have the FCC and the EU all over you for unnecessarily polluting the atmosphere with 3 GHz EMI. Then, because they abhor deceit, they'd make life miserable for AMD on all subsequent products' EMI tests until everyone that knew about it died. You were kidding, right?

To: Gopher Broke who wrote (50587)	8/10/2001 12:18:50 PM
From: niceguy767	Respond to of 275872

Gopher Broke: New near term low territory for Nas, I see...Can it be long before SOXX tests 550 near term low (INTC above $28.50 is all that's keeping it from doing so)??? Also, can DOW hold at 10200 or better as it did this AM???

To: Gopher Broke who wrote (50587)	8/10/2001 1:02:09 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Gopher, <So what proportion of a processor has to use the external clock for it to be considered running at that speed? With the P4, Intel have established that you can run parts of the processor slower than the external clock and still claim that external clock as the speed.> If you haven't noticed, the bus clusters of both Intel's and AMD's CPUs do not run any faster than 133 MHz. Your point is moot. <What is to stop AMD clocking a little internal divider at 3 GHz and drive the CPU off the resulting 1.5 GHz signal? I don't see that would be "resorting to a level of deceit". It would simply be illustrating that to judge a processor by external clock speed is meaningless and it would force Intel to admit it.> No, it would then force Intel to advertise the Pentium 4 at the speed which the double-pumped ALU runs, i.e. twice the frequency of the main clock. Then you're back to square one. Tenchusatsu