Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Jul 1997 14:35:16 +0200 () | From | Hugo Van den Berg <> | Subject | Re: OFF-TOPIC Intel CPU dies... |
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On Sat, 19 Jul 1997, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
-> > On the other hand, they will NOT blow up at lower speeds. Clock -> > multiplying may become unreliable at lower speeds, but at a multiplier -> > of 1, that too should be OK. -> -> But most CPUs are not `static designs'. This means that the internal registers -> and memory need a sufficiently high clock to refresh their contents, cfr. -> refresh cycles on DRAM.
Most CPU's also have a low power mode where the clock speed is reduced to save power. If their registers don't suffer from that, why would they suffer from a lower clock induced by something else?
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