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To: Paul Engel who wrote (60686)	6/6/1999 12:34:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) of 1581927

Paul, RE:"Looks like your memory is either selective or completely gone KAPUT - The 0.25 micron Pentium /// is 122 sq. mm. The 0.18 micron Coppermine with 256K on-chip L2 cache ALREADY IS 109 sq. mm."... Wrong again Geezer boy! Actually, I agree with your logic. The PeeIII w/256k+32K(64k?)=288k will have a smaller die size than the K7 w/128k when you consider the 160k less total cache. A chip with comparible real estate should bring the K7+288k in at about 130mm2. So, being fair, the PeeIII will be about 20% smaller with equal cache space. I don't think the K7 will be available with a total of 288k cache, probably 512. So the K7 will definitely be more expensive to make....unless Intel has trouble putting 256k on die. As for being SLOWER, that remains to be seen. If the K7 is slower, it can be compensated for with MHz. If the coppermine scales as well as the K7 then Intel could basically be in the same boat as AMD is now in repect to the K6-III vs the Pentium III. Jim

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