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To: Hans de Vries who wrote (196777)	5/15/2006 9:56:51 AM
From: mas_	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

That might be nice to print anyway if purely from a historical what could have been POV. Do you know why it was cancelled and do you also have any info on the wide-issue K9 that preceded that was also cancelled ?

To: Hans de Vries who wrote (196777)	5/15/2006 2:10:34 PM
From: Petz	Respond to of 275872

hans, I would like your opinion of whether the 5 GHz Power6 is a product which might imply huge gains in clock frequency for future AMD CPU's. Perhaps not until 45nm generation, but Power6 is designed for 65nm and last I heard was due no later than mid 2007. I'm also intrigued that I've seen claims that IBM achieved much of the clock speed with significant improvements in the transistors -- which should be applicable to any CPU design using the same SOI process -- and that a second big improvement was in the clock distribution (IBM also makes use of a 5-GHz duty-cycle correction clock distribution network for the processor. In the network, the company implements a copper distribution wire that is 3 microns wide and 1.2 microns thick.) from cdrinfo.com Petz