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To: Maxwell who wrote (41574)	11/16/1998 6:24:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 1572769

Maxwell, K7 is same transistor counts as K6-3 Both K6-3 and K7 have large onboard caches, causing the large transistor count. They have a lot more transistors than a PII, because PII has a small onboard cache. If you include the PII backside L2 in the transistor count, the numbers become much closer. L1 cache requires more and larger transistors than L2 cache, because of the greater complexity and speed requirements in an L1 cache. As for the extra execution units, my other messages describe what I think of that nonsense. Scumbria