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To: Elmer who wrote (41411)	11/13/1998 3:48:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) of 1572208

<Come on Brian, think about it. The Alpha is a highend product. The bus architecture is advanced but it isn't cheap. It has been discussed here and we just can't come up with a way to impliment it without a whole bunch of pins for each processor port. AMD isn't going to ship a product to the desktop market with the same chipset that will service the SMP market.> It's obvious that AMD wants to release the uniprocessor K7 platforms first, then later go for SMP. One step at a time, you know. As for implementing K7 SMP, I have no idea how AMD is going to do it. AMD could either go for the simpler solution and connect up all the processors to one north bridge through a crossbar, or they could provide multiple north bridges in the system, with each NB supporting two processors P2P. Perhaps four-way servers will use the first solution, while the more powerful servers will use the second. I think Intel has more to worry about from potential uniprocessor K7 systems than multiprocessor ones. The K7's multiprocessing capabilities are more far-reaching than near. Tenchusatsu

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