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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (89941)	1/27/2000 10:52:00 AM
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Tench - RE: "Seems like while AMD is finding tremendous success in scaling the MHz ladder, their core enhancements aren't coming along as well." It is Mustang that is supposed to get those enhancements. Spitfire and Thunderbird are supposed to get on-chip L2 cache. There is a little bit of info about Foster in this News.com article - yahoo.cnet.com "Foster will provide a new core to replace the current Pentium design, which has been used for years. But more important for ServerWorks, it will provide a new and faster bus that will speed communications between the CPU and its surrounding hardware. Current Pentiums allow communication rates of 800 megabytes per second. The Foster bus will enable rates four times that, 3.2 gigabytes per second." At 200MHz, the Athlon's bus can do 1.6 GB/s, at 266MHz I assume it can do 2.1 GB/s, and at 400MHz 3.2GB/s. All we know of the upcoming Athlon chipset is it will allow 266MHz fsb. AMD has said it can scale to 400MHz. I wonder if they will do that.

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