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To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (88775)	1/21/2000 3:23:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573718

Thread, was this posted yet? AMD To Add On-Chip Cache To Athlon techweb.com Among some of the quotable quotes: The upcoming Thunderbird device will boost performance by transforming the Athlon's current 512 kilobytes of off-chip L2 cache into 256 KB* of on-die L2 cache.* The Spitfire, meanwhile, will feature a 128-KB on-die L2 cache along with its new socket infrastructure. The current Athlon chips use a cartridge packaging scheme, and Dean McCarron, principal analyst for Mercury Research, in Scottsdale, Ariz., said switching to a socket-based design could save $10 to $15 on every part. Although the Sledgehammer will be a 64-bit processor, like Intel's forthcoming Itanium, AMD's device will use the same X86 instruction set as the current generation of processors. Sanders said it initially will target the high-end desktop PC market, not the workstation and server space where many analysts expect to see the first Itanium chips. The first Spitfire chips are expected to ship next quarter, and will ramp up throughout the rest of the year. The Thunderbird will be slightly behind that schedule, according to Brookwood, likely appearing early in the third quarter. Later this year or early in 2001, AMD will also roll out the Mustang, which uses the same Athlon core but features a jumbo-size on-die L2 cache. Brookwood said he predicted the cache on that device could be as large as a megabyte. The Mustang will be expected to compete with Intel's upcoming Cascade processor, which will merge a Coppermine core with an L2 cache that could be as large as 2 megabytes. Tenchusatsu

To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (88775)	1/21/2000 3:43:00 PM
From: Petz	Respond to of 1573718

Kevin, just scanned through the weekly ComputorEdge magazine and good news for AMD Athlon sales continues. I'll post the full statistical summary later, here's some highlights: 1. The Athlon ads are more prominent - the first 10 ads in the magazine all feature Athlon systems. Only 4 of these dealers make Coppermine systems. 2. The fastest systems use Athlon chips -- here's the highest MHz for the first 12 ads Highest AMD MHz:750 750 800 700 700 700 700 600 750 650 000 700 Highest Intel MHz: 600 600 733 733 600 600 600 733 733 600 400 600 3. First ad for an Athlon 800 system - $1899 with 128M, 32M ATI Rage Fury, SB Live Value, USR modem, 13G, Microstar MB, no monitor. This place only sold Intel 2 months ago. Petz