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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Petz who wrote (44812)1/4/1999 7:43:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (2) of 1582932
 
<The number I have is 184mm^2, and that is just 19% bigger than Intel's cheapest chip, the Celeron.>

Imagine how big the K7 will get once they add a minimum of 512K on-die L2 cache.

Celeron can get away with adding just 128K of L2 cache because the P6 core's L1 cache is 32K. The K7 can't add anything less than 512K of L2 cache because its L1 cache is already 128K. It's the old 4:1 rule-of-thumb.

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