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To: rudedog who wrote (63616)	8/30/1998 11:34:00 PM
From: nihil	Respond to of 186894

RE: State of the World Markets --- At EDT 22:02 (30Aug) the N225 was up 0.63% to 14,002.65, and the Hang Seng at 23:08 was down -5.74% at 7380 according to Fidelity.

To: rudedog who wrote (63616)	8/31/1998 9:42:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 186894

Rudedog, I agree with you. HoweverI suspect that the bell curve might well be a high "Q" curve, centered on the 400-450 Mhz point with few above or below. I suspect that all line tweaks are done to get this as narrow as possible and to advance towards higher frequencies incrementally. There will I suspect be upper frequency determined by physical limits of some kind and it is those that are being pushed to shift the whole curve higher. The narrowing will be part of the general fine tuning of the line to get total control of all parameters so that they asymptotically approach identical parts(never reachable). Years ago NEC made DRAM this way and they were all 100 ns or better. They marked them as 100, 120, 150, 180, 200, 250,300,350,400 and 500 ns parts and sold them at different prices in all those markets. Apparently their process was so well tuned that all parts were from 80-100. Same here, I suspect all the parts from intel are fast parts and the variation might be minimal so all celerons can be overclocked. Time will tell as statistics accumulate. I am sure Tom's will make that known. Bill