Too Hot for Socket 7

You raise a good point. Actually, I believe people have already demo nstrated 200-MHz Intel chips running at more than three times that speed in cryogenic environments. Perhaps this is the direction that future chips will take. Even so, I don't see why the technical requirements for a sealed module dictate a commercial policy of closing the architecture. Our concern remains over the possibility of reducing innovation and fragmenting the PC architecture in a senseless bid to move from overwhelming dominance to total monopoly. -- Mark Schlack, editor in chief