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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Petz who wrote (33294)6/15/1998 9:05:00 PM
From: Elmer  Read Replies (1) of 1573902
 
Re: "1. SlotA is or will be an open standard "

SlotA isn't AMD's to give away. It's Compaq's call as to it being an open standard.

Re: " Slot1 technology for memory interface (GTL+) is, I believe, just using differential voltage technolgoy, i.e., two wires for each address/data line."

Have you been getting your info from Ali? This has nothing to do with Slot1 or GTL+. Think of Intel's P6 buffers as just terminated, low voltage swing open drain pins and you will be close enough.

Re: "The thing that gives Slot1 a performance advantage over Socket 7 (but hardly over Super7) for a given CPU core is the backside bus (BSB) to the L2 cache"

This is correct but you forgot to add that the GTL+ bus has much better impedence matching and with the low voltage swing, it will scale to higher frequencies with ease.

EP
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