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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (44162)	12/28/1998 1:36:00 PM
From: Pravin Kamdar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573433

Bill, There was a technical reason for Slot 1. It was so the high speed L2 cache could attached to the processor in a controlled and stable way. Once the Celeron came out with the cache built onto the chip, there was no need for the slot approach. At smaller geometries, when larger amounts of L2 can be built on chip, Intel will probably drop the slot approach across all product lines. (Taken from an EE Times article). Pravin.

To: Bill Jackson who wrote (44162)	12/28/1998 1:49:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573433

<Some of the non-Intel-biased tech people might comment about the slot one future now that on chip cache is a reality. Does the slot 1(both AMD-Alphatech and the Intel style) have a future?> That's a good question, Bill. Despite what Microprocessor Report predicts, I don't think Intel will be giving up the slot form factor any time soon in any other line of processors besides Celeron. I don't know why, but it seems that there are other things to stick onto the daughtercard besides L2 cache. I'll try to find out more. Tenchusatsu