Re: Turbo charging 85?
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Exactly... Rumor has it Intel does the same thing... The design spec for
all chips is 200MHz... After each chip batch (for lack of a better term) is
created, it tested at increasing speeds (75, 100, 120, 133, 150, 166, 200)
until it fails. Then it is stamped with the the highest speed it passed
at and sold... It costs Intel the same amount to make each chip...
At 02:49 10/26/96 -0400, Jonathan Todd Samuel wrote:
>great now. The moral of this story is that every semiconductor device is
>a little bit differen from every other one because of small defects in
>their manufacture. Odds are that zilog aims for say 7mhz when it makes
>its 6mhz chips so that the ones that are a little too slow are still
>fast enough to sell as 6mhz parts to TI. So just becasue some people can
>get their calculator to run faster doesn't mean that yours will work
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