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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (43650)	6/10/2001 1:07:23 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 275872

"It buys Intel a whole lot of ASP. Their big cache chips fetch upwards of $1000. Just take a look on pricewatch." Yes it does. And on a Xeon system where there are 4 processors sharing the same PC100 or PC133 64 bit wide memory bus, it keeps the performance up. But on a (so far) hypothetical 4 way AMD system, a 1 or 2 meg cache Athlon would perform about the same as a 512k Athlon, and cost a great deal more. In addition, it probably would not clock as high. The high price of those large cache Xeons make a difference as far as market share goes, else the small cache Xeons wouldn't out sell them at a high rate. Someone needs to light a fire under API so that they get that northbridge with HTT out. I sure would love to seen an 8 way 1.4GHz Athlon MP benched against anything that Intel can throw togerther...