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To: fyodor_ who wrote (75215)	3/21/2002 9:08:51 PM
From: milo_morai	Respond to of 275872

<font color=green>Back to pincounts, the pincount of HyperTransport is very modest. Consider that the Athlon XP had 462 pins and that VIA's KT333 northbridge (BGA VT8366A) has 552 pins. Clawhammer has two HyperTransport links and a memory interface, so we could say that Clawhammer is a CPU and a northbridge (without the AGP port). In other words, the 754 pin package of ClawHammer is, in fact, rather modest in terms of pin count. Even Sledgehammer's 940-pin package is very modest. The current AMD760MP chipset has no less than 949 pins (!) and therefore we think that the SMP Hammer platform will be quite a bit less expensive to produce than the current Athlon MP platform, not to mention vastly more scalable. Chart inside aceshardware.com