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To: survivin who wrote (121)	12/8/1998 11:26:00 PM
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survivin - RE: "Also, I read a recent interview with an AMD engineer where he stated we're all going to be pleasantly surprised at the reason for the K7 having a L2 cache running at 1/3 the clock speed of the processor, any ideas? I haven't seen a single post which attempts to figure out this statement. Any help would be appreciated." JC, (www.chiptech.com/jc) who helped run the chat where you heard about that info, wanted me to pass this info to you: "Thought I might mention, in case you weren't aware, that my personal logic (and it is good logic) goes like this: 1. If the K7 runs its L2 cache slower than its bus speed, AMD is dumb 2. The bus speed for the introductory K7 is 200MHz, according to AMD 3. The processor will be 3x the speed of the L2 (eg..L2 is 1/3 speed of the cpu) 4. (from 1,2) The L2 cache on the intro K7 must be at least 200MHz -OR- AMD is dumb. 5. (from 3,4) The intro K7 must be at least 600MHz -OR- AMD is dumb. The logic only falls apart if (A) AMD lied about the 200MHz bus or (B) AMD lied about the 1/3 L2 speed" Hope this clears up some of your questions.

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