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To: Paul Engel who wrote (89562)	10/6/1999 1:07:00 AM
From: Process Boy	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul and Thread - A shred of evidence that Intel did in fact present on Coppermine today at Microprocessor Forum. For the record, here are the technical details of the design enhancements reported on below: Advanced Transfer Cache 256KB integrated L2 [Other Cascades products with larger cache] Full speed 256 bit wide data bus 8-way associativity Advanced System Buffering 6 fill buffers (up from 4) 8 bus queue entries (up from 4) 4 writeback buffers (up from 1) High throughput on read/store operations (11.7GB/s at 733MHz) Improved cache hit rate on read/store operations >4X lower latency on read/store operations Sustained bandwidth >1GB/s with 133MHz bus" "New design is much more than just an integrated cache" I'm not a design guy. Any expert comments on this would be welcome, I'm sure. PB ====================================================================== theregister.co.uk Posted 06/10/99 3:47am by Tony Smith in San Jose Chipzilla coughs on Coppermine Intel took the wraps off its Coppermine "next generation... with performance optimisations" Pentium III chip at Microprocessor Forum today. Chipzilla project architecture manager Jim Wilson would only say that Coppermine will become available "later this month" at 700MHz or greater, but as The Register has already reported, the chip is set to ship on 24 October in at 733MHz. Wilson said the chip will be made available in standard desktop, Mobile and Xeon server/workstation versions simultaneously. Coppermine will feature 256K of on-board L2 cache and despite retaining the same P6 core that Intel has been using for the last five-odd years, operate at around 25 per cent faster than the current, Deschutes Pentium III operating on the same 133MHz front-side bus that Coppermine uses. According to Wilson, the improvement is due to the speed gains of bringing the L2 cache onto the die and upping the cache bandwidth, and increasing the chip's buffers to accelerate the flow of data through the processor. Coppermine's release was brought forward, primarily to tackle AMD's 700MHz Athlon. Wilson claimed the 0.18 micron chip was also highly scalable, with the processor easily capable of increasing to 800MHz and beyond, allowing Intel to keep up with whatever AMD comes up with in the near future. ®

To: Paul Engel who wrote (89562)	10/6/1999 2:12:00 AM
From: Process Boy	Respond to of 186894

Paul and Thread - Intel enters mainstream level 2 switch market techweb.com Intel Enters Mainstream Switch Market (10/05/99, 5:12 p.m. ET) By Mark LaPedus, Electronic Buyers' News Continuing its push into the communications IC market, Intel has quietly acquired a small equity stake and formed a product development alliance with ADMtek, a supplier of switching chips. Under the terms of the agreement, Intel and ADMtek will co-develop a line of low-cost, single-chip switching ICs for use in Fast Ethernet networks. The new Layer 2-based products will be based on switching chips from ADMtek and physical-layer ICs from Level One Communications, a Sacramento, Calif.-based subsidiary of Intel. The move enables Intel to enter the booming switch chip market for Layer 2 applications -- a market dominated by Allayer, Broadcom, Galileo, and other suppliers. Officials from San Jose, Calif.-based ADMtek confirmed reports about the company's alliance with Intel. "We've closed the deal with Intel," said Allen Lee, business development manager at ADMtek's subsidiary in Hsinchu, Taiwan. Intel officials said the company has been in discussions with ADMtek, but said a deal has not been reached. Lee added that Intel and ADMtek would roll out their first products during the first quarter of 2000, but he did not elaborate on the details of Intel's investment in the company. Intel appears to be working with ADMtek for several reasons. For one, ADMtek's major shareholder is Taiwan's Accton Technology, one of the island's largest communications equipment makers. 3Com, Intel's counterpart in the communications equipment arena, is also an investor in ADMtek.