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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: kash johal who wrote (43841)12/22/1998 1:45:00 PM
From: Petz  Read Replies (1) of 1586608
 
Kash, <PS. Did anyone verify if the new K6-2 core is really a K6-3 with cache disabled as was rumoured a few weeks back.>

It is likely that the K6-2 with CXT core is
1. Less than 80mm^2 die size
2. Contains all the cache access, memory access and integer core improvements of the K6-3, but without the internal L2 cache.

Anand remarked that the K6-3 was 1mm thicker than the K6-2 (CXT or non-CXT core). This implies a packaging change which probably means the die is different. Also, CXT core K6-2-300's have shown up. It would be extremely foolish for AMD to make 300 MHz K6-2's using a 117 mm^2 die size (K6-3 size from last conf. call).

Petz
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