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To: Elmer who wrote (151371)	12/6/2001 4:39:35 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Elmer, Re: "AMD uses local interconnects in their SRAM cells while on .18u Intel does not. I don't know if this effects access time or not." Local interconnects (usually made out of Tungsten) are used to improve cache density. They have no effect on the speed of the cache, the access times, or when data can be transmitted. Edit: I believe Intel is using another form of local interconnect for their .13u sized caches. It has resulted in a very drastic reduction in cell size, and will probably allow them to build very large caches on some of their processors (6MB of L3 cache on Madison is a good example). wbmw