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To: steve harris who wrote (97003)	3/6/2000 1:04:00 AM
From: SteveC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578731

It's going to be ugly for Intel when Dresden ramps up. Do you think most people will know/care about the cache? Plus, the price point for the chip is fantastic. If you have $2,000 for a PC, you probably have an extra $1,000 and the temptation to get a 1GHz chip is going to be too much for many people. From Anand's review: Athlon Magnolia 1GHz Specifications ú 22 million transistor AMD K75 0.18-micron core ú 1000MHz/1GHz clock speed ? 10.0x clock multiplier ú 128KB on-die L1 cache running at core speed ú 512KB external on-card L2 cache running at 1/3 core speed (333.33MHz) ú 242-pin Slot-A EV6 CPU Interface running at 100MHz DDR (effectively 200MHz) ú 1.80v core voltage The Magnolia is the major release here. While it is not much different than the previous two CPUs, the simple fact that it runs at 1GHz is what makes it so special. Just three months ago we had to cool the Athlon down to ?40C in order to get it to run at 1GHz, and now we have an air cooled part running at just that frequency. That alone is impressive to say the least. The 1GHz Athlon also suffers from the crippling of the 1/3 L2 cache multiplier that keeps its L2 cache running at about 333MHz which is just slightly slower than the 850?s 340MHz L2. So to those that may have been expecting otherwise, the 900, 950 and 1GHz Athlons are not based on the new Thunderbird core we have been waiting for and still use an external L2 cache.