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To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (70308)8/30/1999 3:05:00 PM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1573540
 
Pravin,

What about architectural enhancements? Is there anything left at 32 bits that AMD can do to enhance the K7 architecture, so that we might see a better Willamette competitor in an Athlon II by the end of next year? I guess they can add a large L2 cache and pump the processor-chipset bus up to 400 Mhz, but what about the core?

I suspect that K7 has a lot of performance monitoring features built in which will allow AMD to identify the performance bottlenecks. Memory latency is usually the primary concern, and as you suggested, is mostly appropriately addressed with larger, faster caches.

Scumbria



To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (70308)8/30/1999 3:46:00 PM
From: dumbmoney  Respond to of 1573540
 
What about architectural enhancements? Is there anything left at 32 bits that AMD can do to enhance the K7 architecture, so that we might see a better Willamette competitor in an Athlon II by the end of next year? I guess they can add a large L2 cache and pump the processor-chipset bus up to 400 Mhz, but what about the core?

Well, they could add MMX2 (excuse me, SSE) support, and maybe even do a better job of it than Katmai.


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