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To: Elmer who wrote (39241)	10/13/1998 11:10:00 PM
From: Maxwell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578127

Elmer: <<Intel is already manufacturing CPUs with ~150 Million transistors.>> You must be kidding right? The CeleronA has 19M transistors and of die size 154mm^2. 150M is about 8X of 19M. What chip has this enormous transistor counts? <<Show us some silicon. We've only seen the foils and the hype.>> uPF is only a conference where companies presenting their latest CPU. Nobody brings silicon there. AMD has stated that they will demo at Comdex. I am not sure why they are so secretive and showing only in the back room. I would like to see it myself. <<With the L2 onboard, Intel can go 256 bits wide, something AMD won't do because of pin count with offchip L2.>> Even if the L2 is 256 bits wide the memory still have to load data to the L2 cache. Remember the fastest part of the system is still limited by the slowest part. Maxwell