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To: Petz who wrote (83131)6/20/2002 9:06:37 PM
From: Joe NYCRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 275872
 
Petz,

I think die size had little to do with the 256K Tbred decision and yields had a lot to do with it. AMD has always had trouble designing large caches. I have no clue why, but consider this history:

I could understand if the question was about the size of the core, where a defect renders the chip useless. But increasing the size of the cache does not have the same effect on yields, since there is some redundancy in L2 cache.

Joe


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