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To: Scumbria who wrote (33806)7/1/1998 2:19:00 PM
From: Time Traveler  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1572447
 
That 1.2GHz something was a very water-down version of some processor without the copper technology. On top of that, it was built on 0.12um (or somewhere around that feature size).

Time Traveler



To: Scumbria who wrote (33806)7/1/1998 2:39:00 PM
From: Paul Engel  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1572447
 
Scumbria - Re: "Earlier in the year IBM demoed a 1.2 GHz Power PC chip."

This chip was an Integer-Only processor and used only a limited subset of the Power PC instructions.

It had only 1 million transistors.

The 1.2 GigaHetrz performance was obtained executing only instructions in the on-board cache.

It was made with a 0.15 micron (Leff) process, using ALL ALUMINUM INTERCONNECT - NO COPPER!

Paul


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