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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (85921)	1/7/2000 7:33:00 PM
From: Greater Fool	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 1572437

>>All Celerons are socketed these days Thanks! I didn't know that. It makes sense, though. >>Speaking of which, by the end of 2000, all Pentiums will be socketed as well. By then, the only processor that will still come on an external daughtercard is Merced/Itanium because that will feature 4 MB of off-chip cache Makes one wonder why AMD jumped so vigorously into doing a carded Athlon. It screams "me too". Now they have to develop yet another infrastructure for socketed Athlon. I'm pretty sure there was some good reason for doing that at the time -- maybe it was the difficulty of doing an on-chip L2; maybe it was the current consumption of Athlon. Sounds like the long term product roadmap of physical infrastructure is about the same for Intel and AMD: save the cards for the very high end applications and socket everything else.