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To: yard_man who wrote (38948)12/10/1998 2:32:00 PM
From: SeaViewer  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 132070
 
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I am not an EE engineer. My understanding is that in order to increase the chip's clock speed, the major chip manufactures were going to replacing aluminum with copper for wiring (as aluminum has limit). The chip using aluminum wiring was limited around 500 -600 MHz. According to the news, Intel found a way to increase this limit and going to stick with aluminum to produce 900 MHz chips.

Jeff