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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Paul Engel who wrote (48692)2/5/1999 10:47:00 AM
From: Kevin K. Spurway  Read Replies (2) of 1583848
 
Re: "One of Intel's design teams knocked out Mendocino AND DIXON before AMD could get the Sharp Eye out the door."

Mendocino and Dixon present far fewer design problems than they do manufacturing problems. I don't think anyone will argue with you that Intel's manufacturing isn't first rate. But also keep in mind that the Sharptooth has more transistors than your Dixon, on a much smaller die size and a more complex process. Maybe that's why it is appearing one month after Dixon?

I've wondered by AMD hasn't done a 128k on chip L2 version of the K6-2. Is it because with 64k of L1, you need to have 4x as much L2 to really see a performance improvement?

Kevin
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