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To: Ibexx who wrote (100556)	3/8/2000 7:58:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 186894

Ibexx, nice article, thanks. This part: Pentium III's edge comes from a couple of different factors, but mostly it derives from differences in arcane aspects of the chip's architecture. Chief among these is the secondary cache, a memory reservoir that keeps the core of the chip stocked with data. The "Coppermine" Pentium IIIs, which first came out last October and include the 1-GHz, come with a 256KB cache that is integrated on the same piece of silicon as the processor core. The cache also runs at the same speed as the processor and can pass 256 bytes to the processor at once, rather than the more traditional 64 bytes. Might be arcane to him, but, to me, it's one of the most Kick-A** pieces of technology around right now. Impresses me a whole hell of a lot more than, well, I said enough today. Tony