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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (38269)	10/6/1998 2:08:00 AM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574333

Re: "I seriously wonder what the purpose of this is. Obviously the guy's talking about a point-to-point connection between the K7 and the north bridge. To me, P2P's advantage over a multiprocessor bus seems to be the very high data transfer rate. But its disadvantages will be the costliness of SMP implementation (think about the huge number of pins you have to add just to support a 2nd processor) as well as a higher latency compared to a bus paradigm. Correct me if I'm wrong." I wonder about this too, considering that the P6 bus doesn't even come close to saturation with 2-4 processors, what's the use of P2P considering all the added expense? Also where is the DRAM to feed this beast at 200mhz? Will AMD go to RDRAM? What else is there? Are there any chipsets to support any alternative? Who will develop them? Inquiring minds want to know. EP