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To: Scumbria who wrote (72300)	1/27/1999 5:29:00 PM
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>> K7 has been reported to have some large features on it which make no sense. Like 4 fully floating point units. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the cache bandwidth isn't high enough to keep 4 FPU's full.<< -they are using larger caches to provide the bandwidth the simulation stdies will show if the bandwidth is adequate and nobody will make those design decisions without a good simulator of the arch. -using more units is their way of attempting to achieve higher performance (Multi-media/FP) and get a performance leap over Intel. It seems like the natural direction to take because incremental performance changes will not be noticed. Yes, there are risks associated with it, like getting good yields, struggling to fit on an existing or mfg a new connector etc, but they will try. It is unclear at this time what performance AMD will achieve with K7 so people can only guess. Whether the risk they have taken is worth-while, only time will tell, but one thing for sure is that they have a significant amount of hurdles to overcome before they can make it successful.

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