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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Elmer who wrote (70329)8/31/1999 2:35:00 AM
From: Petz  Read Replies (2) of 1573718
 
Elmer, re:<The massive numbers of K6-3s flooding the market give us a hint as to AMD's inability to manufacture large caches & large die>

IMO, AMD doesn't need to get any better performance clock-for-clock to compete with the sixth generation CuMine. So, I hope their first 0.18&#181; Athlon has 512K of integrated half speed cache. The first chips coming out at 0.18 should run at 850 or 900 MHz.

Higher end chips could have DDR SRAM L2 (same latency as half-speed L2 with double the throughput). 1/1.5 speed L2 is also apparently a possibility. The flexibility of the Athlon core w.r.t. L2 rate is a definite plus that could possibly even be used to decide on L2 speed at test time, and mark the chips accordingly.

Petz
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