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To: Joe NYC who wrote (78294)	4/24/2002 7:30:55 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Respond to of 275872

Joe, Re: "I think there should be a significant difference between a processor with 512K L2, single memory channel and a processor with 1MB L2 and dual memory channel. An on-chip memory controller will reduce these differences somewhat, but will not eliminate them." I would think so, too, but I have been trying to differentiate between the performance hype and the performance reality. Last year when Hammer was announced, I predicted a 15-25% IPC improvement. I still don't expect real world gains to be significantly above this, but who knows.... wbmw