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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Buckwheat who wrote (26394)	12/3/1997 11:26:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1585789

Buckwheat re: $$$$less P2. Can't blame 'em too much, they didn't see the <$1K computer market explosion and, more importantly, they needed the thermal brick to get rid of heat from the high wattage Pentium II, so they might as well put something inside of it besides the CPU. A small L2 (256K or so) on chip probably adds less than $10 to the production cost of a CPU in 0.25 um, so is probably the best compromise. That'll be enough cache for new memory types, but for servers you can always add a big L3 cache on the Mboard like DEC Alpha. Petz