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To: Scumbria who wrote (74488)10/7/1999 3:48:00 AM
From: Process Boy  Respond to of 1572893
 
Scumbria - <It is more a tribute to the backend/process technology at Intel than it is to the design team....Making it run reliably at that speed and latency is a tribute to the downstairs folks.>

That's cool. So ol' Al on .18 ain't so bad after all...

<Designing an L2 cache is relatively simple. Making it run reliably at that speed and latency is a tribute to the downstairs folks.>

Then how come nobody saw these scores coming? I have not heard one iota of speculation, either on the thread or in the engineering press, prior to disclosure yesterday, that suggested that Coppermine would have anything more than a grafted on cache, "just like the Dixon".

PB