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To: David Pletcher who wrote (59072)	10/18/2001 9:45:25 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

David, The next generation of AMD processors will have on chip memory controller, and I don't know if it is possible to have onchip memory controllse plus off-chip L3. And off-chip L3 would not have the performance of onchip increase. Off-chip L3 would need some kind of lookup mechanism, which causes additional delay in memory access. It would be interesting if someone could calculate how much of L3 would you need to equal performance of say additional 256K of L2. Joe