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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Bob Drzyzgula who wrote (63522)6/27/1999 11:06:00 AM
From: grok  Read Replies (1) of 1571365
 
Great post, Bob!

And, of course, one reason that the PA8500 costs $24K is its 1.5 MByte of on-chip, full speed cache. I forget the die size but it's enormous. Dirk could easily slap 1.5 MB on K7 and SpecFP would humm but it would be a dumb idea to do it since, as you point out, it's not so effective beyond benchmarks.

Bob, do you really work for the FED? Could you slip us a tip on what Alan will do on Tues? (Just kidding.)

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