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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (90463)	1/30/2000 12:21:00 PM
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Tench - RE: SMP Athlons Here's a clip from an article posted here in December ebns.com "In addition to the processor program, Samsung's subsidiary, Alpha Processors Inc. (API), is working with AMD to develop an Alpha core-logic chipset called Caspian. Slated for production in the third quarter of 2000, Caspian will support both the Alpha and Athlon processors using the Alpha EV6 bus architecture common to both devices. The cooperative effort ultimately will benefit the processors and their makers alike, said Daeje Chin, Samsung Electronics' executive vice president and chief technical officer, and chairman and chief executive of API." ... "He said working with a market rival on chipset and motherboard R&D ?simply makes sense. Both use the same EV6 bus, so joint development can save time and money. A common chipset for dual-processor versions of both processors also will have production economies of scale to allow low pricing.? Caspian will support PC100 and PC133 SDRAM, and, in the second half of 2000, double-data-rate SDRAM. There are no plans to interface to Direct Rambus DRAM." This article doesn't say it, but it seems like Samsung's Caspian is a chipset that will work with 2 Athlons or Alphas. If possible, can anyone clarify?

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