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To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (79865)	11/15/1999 1:34:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 1579790

Pravin, Do you guys have any feeling for whether or not the latency lowering L2 cache improvements that Intel made to the Coppermine are patented by Intel such that AMD could not use a similar approach when they add L2 to the Athlon? Or, was it a simple matter of widening the bus to the cache? I doubt that there are any patent issues here, it is just a difficult technological problem to make a very low latency L2. Widening the bus wouldn't have done anything to improve latency. Scumbria