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Subject:	Re: World's fastest PC microprocessor
From:	Duane Percox <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Duane Percox <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Tue, 22 Oct 1996 15:24:37 -0700
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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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