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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (66135)7/19/1999 8:08:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1578095
 
RE:"

That's a theoretical maximum. AMD can do it, but I don't think anyone
should expect AMD to try, at least for the next two years or so."...

Why is it so difficult if it's off die?

Jim



To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (66135)7/19/1999 8:42:00 PM
From: fyo  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 1578095
 
Tench - Re: That's a theoretical maximum. AMD can do it, but I don't think anyone should expect AMD to try, at least for the next two years or so.

There have been some rumors that AMD would pull a 'DDR'-SRAM to make it more feasible to do 'full-speed' L2 cache. Any idea of how much the higher latency would hurt performance?

--fyodor