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To: Gopher Broke who wrote (95262)	2/26/2000 1:14:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572251

Gopher, Two dies on a chip obviously introduces a potential yield problem. But why not put two chips on a slocket? Would the Athlon multipoint bus architecture allow for multiple processors to share a single set of bus connectors to the motherboard, without introducing hefty serialization logic that would compromise he multiprocessing capabilities of such a setup? Packages, connectors and test costs are very expensive. For a reasonably sized die, it is much more cost effective to put two dies on the same chip, even at the expense of some lost parts. Scumbria