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To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (49766)	2/16/1999 2:42:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570721

Kevin - Re: "Apparently K7 core voltage on .25u will be 1.6V. Not bad." Not necessarily. AMD's paper said the K7 operates with a 2.5 volt Supply and that 2.5 volt Supply is regulated down on-chip to 1.6 volts for the PLL - Phase Locked Loop, to minimize the electric field stress across the oxides. The surprising number is the 2.5 VOLT SUPPLY ! This is 15% above the 2.2 volts for the existing parts. The above numbers were taken from the text of the AMD article. On the other hand, in a table of technology features, the Power Supply is listed aas 1.6 volts. So, AMD has contradicted itself in its own paper. Paul