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To: dale_laroy who wrote (140585)	7/31/2001 4:24:12 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 186894

Dale, the big step for AMD is moving beyond 2-way. Once AMD gets to 4-way, I have no doubt that reaching 8-way and above is trivial in comparison. The big barrier in this case is the fact that AMD will need to go with ccNUMA and multiple north bridges just to get to 4-way. This is much harder than simply sticking two CPU interfaces onto one north bridge. AMD could get around this barrier by putting two dual-core CPUs onto a single north bridge. But that north bridge better be hefty enough to satisfy the bandwidth requirements of four CPU cores. Tenchusatsu