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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (83744)	12/21/1999 12:57:00 AM
From: Charles R	Respond to of 1572326

<Maybe since AMD is going with an exclusive cache they can lower the latency of the L2 cache because it would be smaller than if the cache was a normal, larger size. > It could, but I wonder if that was AMD's approach. From product management perspective, I would expect Spitfire to be Thunderbird with a littlebit of the cache chopped down. In other words the latency for Spitfire with 64k L2 would be no better than the latency for Thunderbird with 256k cache. Clearly I am guessing here and do not know which way AMD went.