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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Paul Engel who wrote (33802)7/1/1998 2:00:00 PM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1572208
 
RE:"That's 30 MHz faster than IBM can get out of their own copper PowerPC chip."

Paul,

Earlier in the year IBM demoed a 1.2 GHz Power PC chip.

I think you are probably aware of the fact that there are many factors affecting clock speed, only one of which is process technology. Alpha has been running at very high clock speeds for years, largely due to the architecture/design style/methodology.

But I'm sure you knew all that ;^)

Scumbria


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