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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)
AMD 220.10+1.0%2:39 PM EST

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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (75652)3/26/2002 9:23:51 PM
From: brushwudRead Replies (2) of 275872
 
Relating this to Hammer - didn't Sanders say that it would have 64M transistors? That would be greater than the Pentium 4, yet AMD manages a much smaller die. It sounds to me like Intel could use greater density to be more competitive.

Hammer has 64 KB L1s and a 1 MB L2, while Northwood has 8 KB L1s and a 512 KB L2. At six xtors/SRAM cell, that's more than 30 M transistors right there. Plus the Hammer has an integrated Northbridge. It never occurred to me that Intel was at a big density disadvantage! Just a less effective microarchitecture.
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