I was also surprised that Feeney considered carry generation to be a very small portion of the chip since it's a prominent part of the die. But I measured, and

I was also surprised that Feeney considered carry generation to be a very small portion of the chip since it's a prominent part of the die. But I measured, and it's about 2% of the die. > If they had cared about speed, they would not have shoehorned it into 18 pins. My interpretation is that the 8008 team didn't have any control over Intel's bizarre 18-pin limit, but improving speed by adding carry lookahead was something they could do. Even so, the 8008 was slower than the Datapoint 2200's processor that it was supposed to replace and Datapoint abandoned the 8008.