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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (41603)	11/16/1998 10:38:00 PM
From: kash johal	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575146

Tench, >Re: Let's face it, the Kryotech products are for hobbyists who are >willing to spend extra dough for the speed boost. That's a very nice >niche for Kryotech, and certainly a project which attracts the >attention of the press, but a serious product for the workstation and >server segment it is not. Tench, I believe that you are wrong and this could be significant for the K7. Kryotech currently sell a cryo-cooled Alpha workstation souped up from 500Mhz to 767 Mhz for around $10K. I could see a silimilar product on the K7 for the $3-5K range due to K7 lower costs than Alpha's. For a lot of engineerings apps multiple CPU's don't buy you much so raw performance is critical. This is a pretty significant market but will depend upond the SPEC markes for K7. WRT to reliability of Kryotech's products - I simply don't know but it would seem to me it would be easy to lower clock speed if temp. sensors show abnormal rise. I imagine that's how they do it. There is No RELIABILITY issue running CMOS devices cooler in fact the device reliability improves dramatically over running in a hot environment. regards, kash