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To: Tony Viola who wrote (47681)	1/28/1999 3:02:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) of 1572375

Tony, K7, some folks on this thread are beginning to call it overdesigned. Xeon = Celeron + a large coherent L2 cache. Intel figured out a long time ago that you don't need a killer core to compete in the workstation/server market. All you need is: 1. Adequate MHz 2. A large L2 cache 3. MP compliant caches and bus K7 is an attempt to do 1-3 + the killer core. If it works out, Dirk Meyer will be a hero. If it doesn't work out, everyone will say "they should have done the easy part, and not worried about the killer core." The K7 seems to have a lot of risk, derived from it's complexity and die size. It will be interesting to see what happens the next few months. Scumbria

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