🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 17:05:14 +0000, Oz <Oz@upthorpe.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <80ttgr$1aq2@gamma.dmz-eu.st.com>, Dave Smith
><dsmith@bristol.nospam.st.com> writes
>
>>In article <f6ps08.c43.ln@stravinsky>, anahata@freereed.demon.co.uk wrote:
>>|> Overheating is a separate problem.  It can be a consequence of overclocking,
>>|> and overheating can cause errors, but that's not the only reason why an
>>|> overclocked device goes wrong. If the logic can't respond fast enough to
>>|> have the right data at the output when the next clock pulse arrives, there
>>|> will be errors, simply because the internal logic can't move fast enough (at
>>|> any temperature).
>>
>>Rubbish (sort of).  Device Speed is always a function of temperature, i.e. the
>>hotter it is, the slower it runs.  
>
>Garbage. You have your cause and effect mixed up.
>Actually IIRC conventional silicon semiconductors run slightly FASTER
>when hot because of a *small* increase in electron/hole speed.
>

I suggest you look at the address Dave writes from. ST is a 
semiconductor manufacturer. I am a semiconductor designer and
fully agree with Dave.


-- 
Andy