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To: Elmer who wrote (56820)	4/29/1999 11:59:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575178

Re: "However may I point out that just like Intel's 1 GHz show a few months ago, this is not a product, just a demo. Still it is impressive." From what I hear, it's closer to being a commercial product than anything Intel has to offer. Kevin

To: Elmer who wrote (56820)	4/29/1999 11:59:00 PM
From: RDM	Respond to of 1575178

I agree with Elmer. Any demo of 1GHZ is special due to the inherent difficultly. Every hardward designer has experienced the incredible precautions necessary to make circuits run at 1 GHZ. It is not so difficult to get an individual chip to run at this speed, but to get systems to interact effectively with a chip at this speed is an accomplishment. I have been expecting both Intel and AMD to take "extra time" in going from 700Mhz to 1 Ghz. These demos by both Intel and AMD indicate to me that I have been possibly too conservative in this regard.