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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (61182)	6/9/1999 8:44:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1572680

<The argument was that the higher latency of a Xeon vs. a CuMine onchip L2 would be offset in performance terms by the Xeon's larger (512k) L2 size.> It's really hard to quantify, Kevin. Last summer, who would have thought that Mendocino Celeron would come close to a Pentium II in Business Winstone performance? I could go into more detail (and I was for a while before I changed my mind), but you get the idea. Suffice to say that there are people within Intel who know the answers already, and they aren't talking, of course. Tenchusatsu