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SubjectRe: OFF-TOPIC Intel CPU dies...
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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