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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Scumbria who wrote (114090)6/7/2000 7:41:00 PM
From: wily  Read Replies (1) of 1577900
 
Scumbria,

The topic of full-speed L2 keeps coming up over and over again. The principle value of an onboard-L2 cache is that it provides lower latency than an off-chip cache. The clock speed of the cache is of secondary importance.

Why is the latency lower for on-chip cache vs off-chip cache at equal clock speeds?

wily
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