TWY - <What cache story is this??? TIA>
The story circulating on the web that the K6III is dead due to unacceptable sub threshold leakage. From JC's:
00/02/04, 12:29am - Hey, one last thing that I got from that mysterious but groovy fellow. This might interest lots of you guys, as the issue has been hostly debated here and there recently. According to this person ... There will "probably" never be a K6-3+. The K6-3's initial plight was caused by "severe current leakage problems" caused by the cache's extra transistors, and while there is a 180nm K6-3 mask set in Austin, the smaller Sharptooths are still displaying the leakage problems.
Basically, if you turn off half the cache, the leakage is not as bad and the processor works better.
K6-3+ was originally planned to sell alongside the K6-2+. However, at a very recent internal AMD meeting, a roadmap showed no K6-3. Of course, that contradicts the most recent publicly displayed roadmap, so I'll leave it to you to decide the story for yourself. Personally, I'm inclined to believe this side of it, as this is info from the inside, eh?
Just unsubstantiated rumor.
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