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From: edp@jareth.enet.dec.com (Eric Postpischil (Always mount a scratch monkey.))
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Subject: RE: HP28 power study
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Date: 4 Dec 90 16:21:18 GMT
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In article <9012040556.AA19531@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu>,
robert@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Robert D. Thompson) writes:

>In fact CMOS typically demands more power at higher clock frequencies.

I think you are writing of power (energy per unit of time) whereas the original
author wrote of energy per operation, so both can be correct:  Something that
takes more power at higher frequencies can still use the same amount of energy
for a given number of operations.


				-- edp