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To: Scumbria who wrote (41572)11/16/1998 6:03:00 PM
From: Maxwell  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1572702
 
Scrumbria:

<<A large portion of the K7 transistor count is attributable to the large L1 cache. Since the cache array is very dense, you should not assume that the die size will scale accordingly.>>

That is not true. A K6-3 has 21.5M transistors which has 256K L2+64K L1. That die size is 117mm^2. K7 is same transistor counts as K6-3 but 184mm^2. Most of those transistors form the extra execution units and big buffers and registers.

Maxwell


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