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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (141733)	8/16/2001 9:02:54 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: Intel was able to get 2x increase by moving No, Intel went from 1GHZ to 1.5GHZ, with little or no increase in performance on most software. Motorola has said that SOI will let it produce 1+ GHZ CPUs with a 7 stage pipeline. Motorola had a 100% frequency increase from one week to the next with a very substantial performance increase (not that performance seems to matter to anyone these days). If you attribute the whole increase to SOI instead of pipeline change plus SOI (I wouldn't) you shouldn't be worried about Intel missing out on SOI, you should be terrified