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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Scumbria who wrote (70315)8/30/1999 5:56:00 PM
From: Elmer  Read Replies (3) of 1573708
 
Re: "Memory latency is usually the primary concern, and as you suggested, is mostly appropriately addressed with larger, faster caches."

Ahhhh easy to say... not so easy to do. The massive numbers of K6-3s flooding the market give us a hint as to AMD's inability to manufacture large caches & large die. The Athlon would need 512K on die L2 to make a difference and AMD has real problems manufacturing the K6-3 with 256K. The L2 doesn't care what the architecture is, it cares what the defect density is.

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