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To: jcholewa who wrote (67384)	1/8/2002 5:24:19 PM
From: eCo	Respond to of 275872

JC:I dunno. 25% for the second highest speed grade of a first stepping of a new process doesn't seem all that bad. Do you think AMD will do any [or much] better when the Tbred first comes out? It would not surprise me if Thoroughbred only overclocked 25%. As we all know, there will be diminishing returns with decreasing feature size. So back to Northwood, this observation alone would not worry me. But I'm looking at the whole picture: 1) decreased overclock potential after shrink compared to previous architectures (according to Ed S. whose opinion I respect - esp. in this area) 2) 3 month delay of introduction 3) Low apparent availability 4) Tcase = 69 deg. C (per Ali) 5) Relatively tight voltage tolerances, again compared to historical (Vcc_typ = 1.5, Vcc_max = 1.55, Vcc_maxmax = 1.75 V.) eCo