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To: tejek who wrote (96547)	3/3/2000 12:10:00 PM
From: Monica Detwiler	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1571813

Ted - You (or someone else) reported the following: thanks to our colleagues at Tech Channel who followed up our story, is that the 1GHz microprocessors will use aluminium interconnects and be fabbed at AMD's Austin plant, . Does this not imply that the new 1 GHz Athlon will be a standard Athlon with off-chip Level 2 cache? If so, won't that cache be running at only 300+ MHz - a mere one-third (or so) of the processor's 1 GHz speed? How would you expect, if this is true, the 1 GHz Athlon to perform relative to Intel's 1 GHz Coppermine - with a smaller L2 cache, but a cache that runs at the full 1 GHz? Monica