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To: Elmer who wrote (41521)	11/16/1998 1:23:00 AM
From: Ed Sammons	Read Replies (1) of 1574211

Intel will not need to make this investment for expensive testers because they will only have to test at the speed of the FSB. Actually the Xeon's have full speed .5-2MB BSB at 450MHz. If I remember correctly, the K7 BSB can run at either full or half speed. Your seem to question AMD's ability to test K7's full speed BSB, however you do not question Intel's ability to test the full speed BSB of the Xeon. Why is that? You seem to be saying that AMD can not afford the required testers, but do not question Intel and the full speed BSB of the Xeon. Won't Intel be in the same situation when the L2 cache is placed on the silicon in .18um? Did Intel piss away beaucoup bucks for testers?

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