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DEC made a one-off ECL CPU in 1993: https://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/tech_reports/WRL-93-8.pdf

300 MHz / 115 W. Ten years later, you'd have Pentium 4 at 3000 MHz and 115 W.


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chasil01/21/2025

The VAX 9000 was also an ECL implementation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAX_9000

It was an enormously expensive failure.

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