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To: tejek who wrote (85166)	1/5/2000 1:47:00 PM
From: Goutam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572507

Ted, re: Goutama, do you know what they meant when they say "T-bird will be aimed high, spitfire low"? Spitfire will be like the current K6-2 line - targeted towards the low-end market. It may replace K6-2/K6-2+ line for desktops once it's fully ramped. Spitfire and T_bird, both would have L2 Cache implemented on the chip (current Athlons have L2 implemeneted external to the CPU - on the Athlon module). Spitfire would have less amount of L2 cache on the chip compared to T_bird's on-chip L2 cache's size. With lower L2 on-chip cache, Spitfire would cost less and performance will be lower than that of T_bird. Also, Spitfire will come only in Socket-A version - eliminating the cost of SLot-A module. T_bird will come in two versions - SocketA and Slot-A and will be aimed at the high end PCs. Regards, Goutama