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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Paul Engel who wrote (42118)11/23/1998 2:50:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway  Read Replies (1) of 1571686
 
Re: "The K7 reportedly had a back side L2 bus speed of only 1/3 the CPU speed. Not good - perfromance will suffer badly."

You're right Paul. I hear that the backside L2 will only run at 1/3 the processor speed on the earliest K7s. But the 200 Mhz spec is also true. Do the math:

K7 will be introduced at 600 MHz.

I think the reason that AMD isn't doing half speed backside L2 is that they anticipate a lack of availability of cost effective SRAMs capable of 300 MHz operation.

Have a nice day,

Kevin
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