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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (7249)	9/1/2000 1:23:19 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Cirrus, Scumbria, would an extra 256K L2 cache even help the Athlon in notebooks? Having a large L2 cache reduces the number of DRAM accesses, and thereby saves power. It will also improve performance, but the main motivation is power savings. Scumbria

To: Cirruslvr who wrote (7249)	9/1/2000 1:49:46 AM
From: Charles R	Respond to of 275872

Cirruslvr, <unless the AMD does a process shrink to .15 or so> Mustang is a process shrink. AMD can call it 0.18 or whatever else but in reality it is more like a 0.15 - somewhat akin to PIII c0 stepping. Process folks say that these numbers are so basterdazied now it is completely meaningless to call something a 0.13 or 0.15 or 0.18. Lots of companies process nomenclature now seems marketing driven than anything else. <So Morgan will be made in Austin while Mustang and Palomino will be made in Dresden and are "expected" to be made on a .18 process. > Yup! And that's about the only way it makes sense. By the way, nice catch on the language change. Chuck