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To: overhols who wrote (64)7/6/2000 4:40:12 PM
From: dougSF30Read Replies (1) of 275872
 
Great DDR SMP link, overhols! Excerpt:

CPU Support: Including SMP Athlon?

Micron is leveraging itself into several computing arenas. Samurai DDR supports all current Intel P6 based CPUs. The first working boards built in December, 1999 utilized Intel's Slot 1 architecture, but the final product will natively accept Slot 1, Socket 370, and Socket FC-370 designs. Micron has also recently finished support for the AMD Slot A and Socket A architectures, and hopes to aggressively market this K7 DDR chipset as a direct competitor to Intel's i840 platform. With SMP (Symmetric MultiProcessing) support, Micron could even be the first vendor with a multiple CPU Athlon product.

Several OEMs have expressed interest in providing SMP Athlon systems, as the K7 architecture provides extremely efficient server computing. Multiple Northbridge chips can be interconnected, thus offering expanded SMP support. The SMP architecture will also benefit directly from DDR memory support, as DDR will help to improve disk I/O rates and network efficiency. The server market will likely take notice of this feature, since newer operating systems like Windows 2000 and Linux 2.3 are proving that SMP and high speed memory can place the x86 architecture into the forefront of high speed computing.
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