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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Scumbria who wrote (39962)10/24/1998 3:27:00 PM
From: RDM   of 1576883
 
It is wise for AMD to chose to invest the silicon real estate for the K7, the next generation processor, in functions that are complex such as more instruction units, integer piplelines and floating point rather. L2 cache may be put on the chip any time the future.

If the chip is to perform at 1000 Mhz then on chip L2 cache will be important. The first K7s are built with 25 microns. There is plenty of time to add more on chip cache once they switch to 18 microns. It will be much easier for them to get a decent yield with cache addition
due to the smaller die size.

AMD investors want the K7 to be introduced on time and in volume production quickly.
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