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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Scumbria who wrote (53035)3/21/1999 12:07:00 AM
From: Elmer  Read Replies (1) of 1583406
 
Re: "The Alpha 21164 already runs at 700 Mhz in an old 0.35u process. Samsung is promising 1GHz by the end of the year."

Perhaps but the Xeon out performs it in integer operations.

Re: "What K7 has that Intel and IBM don't, is a 3-cycle L1 cache lookup. P6, PPC, K6, M1 all use a 2-cycle cache lookup. There is not enough time to do address calculation, address translation, cache lookup, and cache array access in 2 cycles at 600+ Mhz."

What Intel has is production silicon and positive margins. AMD has foils.

Re: "Alpha, Willamette, M3, K7 all are using >2 clocks L1 lookups. K7 and Alpha are the first to get there however."

K7 doesn't have anything. There is no production silicon.

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