To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (73968 ) 2/18/1999 3:27:00 PM From: Gerald Walls Read Replies (1) | Respond to
Slot 1 died and is being phased out? Says who? Last I heard, even the 133 MHz Camino is going to be Slot 1, as well as future Pentium III CPUs. Xeon is Slot 2, and Celeron is shifting to Socket 370, but I didn't hear anything, rumor or announcement, which says that Slot 1 has died already. The reason behind Intel's move back to a socket rather than a slot-solution is pretty simple. Now since the L2-cache fits onto the CPU-die, there's no additional space needed anymore, as it is provided by Slot1 or Slot2. Socket370 is supposed to save Intel a major amount of money in production costs over Slot1 and the motherboards for Socket370 will also be cheaper to produce than Slot1 boards. Once Intel is producing Pentium III in 0.18 micron technology, as planned for Q3 1999, this new high end CPU will also have on-die L2-cache (CPU code name 'Coppermine') and will most likely go back to a socket-solution as well. It turns out that Slot1 was only a transition for the time when Intel was not able to place CPU core and L2-cache onto the same piece of silicon.
