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Re: World's fastest PC microprocessor
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Tracy Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
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Tracy Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 23 Oct 1996 16:27:00 PDT
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Didn't the Cray II use liquid nitrogen or something like that?

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From:  owner-hp3000-l[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:  Tuesday, October 22, 1996 3:24 PM
To:  HP3000-L
Subject:  Re: World's fastest PC microprocessor

Glenn Cole writes:

>No, not "Merced."
>
>On Monday, October 21st, Exponential Technology announced the
"Exponential
>X704" microprocessor: a 533MHz PowerPC chip, expected to enter volume
>production in the second quarter of 1997. (It will also be available in
>"pokey" 500MHz and 466MHz versions.)
>
>For details, check their web site: <http://www.exp.com/>.
>(Sorry, Stan, I don't have the exact URL handy for the press release.)

Big issue for the pc/mac folks is that its a Bipolar chip and generates
lots of heat..

Remember the 60mhz Pentium heat problems?....these should throw much
more heat than that chip...it will be a good problem for the engineers
to solve.

Duane Percox ([log in to unmask]  v/415.306.1608 f/415.365.2706)
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