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

To: Paul Engel who wrote (71649)	9/10/1999 2:46:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1585833

Paul, <By the way, I read somewhere that AMD made a comment that the CURRENT Athlon WAS NOT SMP capable - and that a "modified" version was in the works.> I don't recall that, Paul. But I guess with 60 errata that need workarounds, a few of them might be related to SMP. I just think a lot can happen between now and Merced/460GX release. Fixing SMP and releasing a 2-way Athlon chipset and motherboard by then is definitely a possibility. Four-way is much tougher, though. HotRail's 8-way chipset won't be here for a while, Via and ALi have no 4-way SMP experience, and RCC never announced any Athlon support. Am I missing any chipset company here? Tenchusatsu