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To: greenspirit who wrote (283)	12/2/1997 3:05:00 AM
From: SteveG	Respond to of 5853

<A> WSJ 12/1: Chip Firms -2-: Chips To Hold More Data, Operate Faster By 2012, the SIA's experts concluded, manufacturers should be able to put 1.4 billion transistors on a thumbnail-size microprocessor, which will operate at a speed of 2,700 megahertz. Memory chips will hold as much as 275 billion bits of data. By contrast, Intel's current Pentium II microprocessors have 7.5 million transistors and run at 300 megahertz, while the most popular memory chips only store about 16 million bits of data. ----------- S