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

To: Steve Porter who wrote (39821)	10/21/1998 8:59:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1579121

<There is no technical difference between the cores of the K6 "mobile" and K6 "desktop" AFAIK. I believe there was some discussion of this point on the date of introduction. The "mobile" K6 is merely in a different package I believe.> Then why isn't there a K6-2 version for mobile computers? I remember being told that the K6-2 has a high leakage current. I guess that says nothing about the K6, but it's still hard for me to believe that the cores in the desktop and mobile versions of the K6 are identical, and that the only difference is the package. In other words, you can't just do a drop-n-go; you have to decide whether the processor is going to be desktop or mobile before you create the silicon. Tenchusatsu