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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Paul Engel who wrote (46724)1/20/1999 2:21:00 PM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (1) of 1572391
 
Paul,

1. Multiprocessing support - cache coherency inconsistencies.

If so, this will delay the product's use in MP systems only.

2. FPU speed enhancements do not meet "expectations".

I don't know who set the expectations, but it seems fairly obvious that there is no way to keep four FPUs filled with data. K7 appears to have been architected with a lot of excess baggage (thus the large die size.) It does seem reasonable to speculate that K7 will outperform PIII at the same clock speed.

Scumbria

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