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To: ptanner who wrote (116404)	6/19/2000 12:23:00 AM
From: milo_morai	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576972

Did you note Anand said 1.1Ghz soon. "In order to distance the Duron from the Athlon even more, it is only being released at three clock speeds, none of which overlap with currently available Athlon (Thunderbird) parts. The Duron will be available in 600, 650 and 700MHz frequencies and the Thunderbird picks up at 750MHz all the way up to 1GHz (and pretty soon, 1.1GHz). " I wonder if he has one already? Milo anandtech.com P.S. Note the Die Size info As far as die sizes are concerned, we noticed an interesting phenomenon with the Duron. Let?s take a look at a quick comparison of the various die sizes: CPU Die Size Comparison AMD Duron AMD Athlon Core Spitfire K7 K75 Thunderbird Die Size 100mm^2 184 mm^2 102mm^2 120mm^2 In order for the Duron to have a smaller die size than the K75 AMD must have done some reorganizing of the core because the Duron essentially has the same core plus an additional 64KB of integrated L2 cache. This confirms that the Duron and Thunderbird are much more than K75 cores with on-die L2 cache. AMD did quite a bit of optimization of the 0.18-micron layout with the two new cores. It is possible that AMD could have added another metal layer to the core much like Intel did with the Coppermine when they added a 6th metal layer