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To: combjelly who wrote (39665)	5/14/2001 5:36:39 PM
From: dougSF30	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Then again, Tom's article suggests even more strongly than Anand's review that mobile, server and desktop A4s will have the same guts, with only the validation emphasis being different: mobile = correct under low power server = works in dual mode desktop = works at high frequencies And somebody pointed out that the point-to-point bus may obviate the usefulness of a > 256Kb L2 (as compared to Xeons.) The other differences may be in certain signals on package pins (to enable/disable powerNow, etc.) [Edit: Oh, and probably the supported (at least officially) FSB speed.] This would have its advantages... AMD cranks out tons of cores with less waste, and better ability to match changing demand across these 3 market segments. The small differences in packaging & validation being enough to support different prices... Not bad, if it works. Thoughts? Doug