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To: Scumbria who wrote (71064)	1/12/1999 2:36:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Scumbria - Re: "Architects at Intel, AMD, Cyrix, and even DEC (as of late) have all failed to grasp the concept that clock speed sells. Somebody should have hit 1GHz this year." Sure. They are all dummies except you. Paul

To: Scumbria who wrote (71064)	1/12/1999 3:10:00 PM
From: Edwin Slonim	Respond to of 186894

But Intel architects have grasped that power consumption goes up as a function of frequency squared, (=> heat), and that manufacturers have only recently been able to cost effectively produce 100Mhz buses to memory .... So maybe it's not the architects who are limiting clock speeds? Basically, it is a question of myriad tradeoffs, to produce reasonably cost effective computing power.