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To: Scumbria who wrote (5725)	8/19/2000 9:04:47 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Hi Scumbria; Re transistors toggling and caches... This is outside my area of expertise. Is it really the case that cache and the main cpu share the same percentage of transistors cycling per clock? My intuition says that the cpu bits get changed a lot more often. I've certainly noticed that the power consumption of a processor is a lot more than the power consumption of a similar sized memory, even though the memory is built with much more tightly packed transistors (due to the array packing efficiency of memory). -- Carl