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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Scumbria who wrote (47706)1/28/1999 6:40:00 PM
From: Elmer  Read Replies (1) of 1571198
 
Re: "The P6 bus offered Intel:

1. Split transactions. Essential for MP. Little value in a single processor system.

2. AMD couldn't copy it. Intel was hoping that the motherboard manufacturers would phase out
Socket 7, and take AMD out with it. Unfortunately for Intel, K6/MII market share got too large and
spoiled their plans.

3. Potentially higher bus clock speeds. This was not needed because the backside L2 was on the CPU
side of the bus."

So you do acknowledge that the P6 bus has advantages. I assume then you retract your accusation that Intel did it to damage AMD. Clearly if the P6 was to be successful in SMP systems Socket7 had to go. The enormous success Intel has achieved with the PPro and now Xeon SMP systems proves the decision to drop Socket7 was the right decision. The fact that Intel didn't provide a Socket7 version, thus ensuring AMDs continued success seems to be what's bothering you.

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