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To: Joe NYC who wrote (107312)	4/22/2000 1:12:00 AM
From: Charles R	Read Replies (2) of 1572962

<Good article on Ace's Hardware (thanks to JC for the link): aceshardware.com > Yes, it is a nice read. A long time back a tiny Texas company called Cyrix utilized this math to their advantage by integrating memory controller into the CPU to make a 486 class core perform like a 586 class core. Alas, for CYRX longs, the core wouldn't scale in MHz! Forunately for AMD longs, Athlon scales. Now, an interesting question (for me at least): Who will debut a mass market part with memory interface embedded into the CPU? What time frame? What will that memory interface be?

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