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To: Road Walker who wrote (147109)	11/7/2001 11:00:22 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

John - Re: "He said AMD, but they were always coming back because people didn't cool them properly." Are we supposed to be surprised ??? !!! How's your computer doing now - get it fixed? Paul

To: Road Walker who wrote (147109)	11/8/2001 12:07:37 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: re: Heat kills Intel's notched gate processors have some of the lowest maximum temperature tolerances ever seen in production PC's - some parts as low as 60 degrees! By using the notched gate process to etch gate sizes down to what would normally be the next major node (so they get .13 gates from their .18 process) Intel managed to keep from sliding too far behind Athlon in performance, but the resulting processors are fairly fragile, and they've also been "eating their future" by using up much of the benefit that otherwise would be gained when moving to a copper .13 from an aluminum .18 process. <Very Very Very Big Grin!> PS - PIII went from 1.1GHZ on aluminum .18 to 1.26GHZ on copper .13 for a gain of only 15%!