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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (54987)4/10/1999 12:26:00 AM
From: Aaron Cooperband  Read Replies (1) of 1582614
 
Tenchusatsu -

Re: "Intel is relying on being the first to 0.18 microns and the first to graft the L2 cache onto the processor die in order to stay ahead of the curve."

Can you please explain to me why Intel would put a L2 cache on-chip rather than just increasing the L1 cache commensurately?

Aaron
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