Intel Investors - 90 miles north of San Francisco, along Highway 101 heading north, is the beautiful coastal county of Mendocino.
About 50 miles south of San Francisco, along Highway 101 heading south, is another Mendocino.
This Mendocino is not quite as old as the one north of San Francisco.
In fact, this Mendocino doesn't quite exist yet - perhaps it will be born in mid-1998, another product in Intel's on going CPU roadmap.
The Deschutes device, to be released early next year, will be further enhanced with an onboard L2 SRAM cache of about 128 Kilobytes, with some other additions. This new product will be the Mendocino.
It was mentioned peripherally earlier today on the CMP/Computer Reseller News site:
crn.com
The 128 KiloByte L2 cache, although on the same die, will be controlled by the L2 cache controller - not the L1 controller. It interfaces with the "Backside" bus of the Dual Independent Bus structure - much like the Pentium II and Deschutes.
What a day of contrasts. AMD announces that they cannot make/sell their K6 in any kind of volume, and Intel is hard at work making Pentiums, Pentium II's, and Deschutes while busily designing newer chips - Mendocino, Katmai, Willammette, Merced, not to mention all the newer chip sets and SRAMS being designed at various Intel locations.
What a day of contrasts. Mendocino!
Paul |
