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To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (6088)	8/22/2000 3:50:23 PM
From: EricRR	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

I repeat that SOI may be the big Mustang surprise that boosts performance and lowers power to the level that Corvette can be made possible Interesting, but I think it's a stretch that AMD would be the first ot market a SOI chip. Shouldn't MOT get to do it first?

To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (6088)	8/22/2000 3:59:28 PM
From: dougSF30	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Pravin, one thing I take away from that page is this: The AMD talk summary implies that current Athlons are NOT multiprocessor capable, and that certain "enhancements" to the cache were necessary to enable this. I guess this means that Mustang will be SMP-capable, but Tbirds are not? Doug --snip-- AMD's Athlon: Architectural Enhancements for Advanced Multiprocessing Systems Rich Heye - VP and GM, Advanced Micro Devices, Texas Microprocessor Division This presentation discusses multiprocessing enhancements to the AMD Athlon processor's internal cache as well as the challenges and design tradeoffs required to make multiple hyper-GHz processors work in tandem.

To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (6088)	8/22/2000 4:07:35 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

One little bit that caught my eye was this: Getting Results: eCache on a PC Platform Dean Klein - VP of Integrated Products, Micron Technology, Inc. Formal introduction of Mamba, Micron's PC system chip incorporating embedded DRAM, an AMD Athlon interface, and many additional system-oriented features. Micron has been lurking in the background with its Samurai DDR chipset, but it's not clear if they're interested in actually marketing any of their chipset stuff. At the OEM level, Micron is still pure Intel. Nice that they're working with the Athlon, anyway. Cheers, Dan.