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To: Harvey Allen who wrote (75800)	3/28/2002 1:54:09 PM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Dear Harvey: Noticed three things. First it is off chip meaning it was not on-die. Second, it was 1T SRAM which is like eDRAM which is the kind Micron put into its NB for 8MB. No mention of the speed of the L2. Lastly, they have two CPU cores each with 1.5MB of L1 and together they get less SPEC performance than Hammer is projected to get with much smaller caches and a single core all in a die that is almost 1/4th the size. For the same die size, a hammer could have four cores and 2MB of cache. It would say beep beep and whoosh away ahead. It just goes to show that caches close to the CPU are having diminishing returns. They must get vastly bigger to have noticable gains. It is not worth it. Pete