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To: Essam Zaneldin who wrote (9773)	3/19/1998 9:33:00 PM
From: Eric Yang	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213176

Intel demonstrated a 400Mhz Klamouth back in Feb of 1997. It was liquid cooled. Today 400MHz Pentium II is still not on the shelf. Technology demonstration doesn't necessarily mean a viable product. A conservative estimate of this 700Mhz processor's power usage in the 60+ Watts range if not much higher. I wonder what's cooling it. Most of Intel's fab is still in .35 micron. Intel's strength is in manufacturing large quantities of processors cheaply...and not coming up with the best design or utilizing the latest technology. Eric

To: Essam Zaneldin who wrote (9773)	3/22/1998 11:26:00 AM
From: Doren	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213176

Essam, Intel has done this before. In the past they've used special cooling systems to enable the processor to run faster than it would under real world conditions. I think you'll find on investigation that the PPC chip will stay ahead of Intel chips for at least 2 more years and probably more. Also mhz doesn't tell the whole story as a 266 mhz G3 PPC chip beats a 300 mhz 604e PPC chip which beats a 330 mhz Intel chip. PPC chips used to be faster mostly in FPU performance, now they're faster in interger also. macnn.com Doren