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To: kash johal who wrote (50530)	2/22/1999 8:16:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1572719

<The problem here is that Intel is basing everything to a PII 233 and it shows the Dixon is only 16% faster.> Then just do the math and scale the numbers again to a Pentium II 300 (Mobile Deschutes): Pentium II 300 (Mobile Deschutes): 1.00 (originally 1.10) Pentium II 300PE (Dixon): 1.05 (originally 1.16) This is the closest to a "fair" comparison we can get. The Dixon at the same clock speed runs 5% faster than a mobile Deschutes on Winstone 99. <If this is all Dixon can manage I suspect they will be toast.> Like I said before, the reason behind the 256K of on-die L2 cache isn't performance, since 5% is hardly worth bragging about (except for AMD, I suppose). Rather, the on-die L2 cache allows Intel to do away with the bulky mobile Deschutes cartridge which included both processor and off-chip SRAM cache. Dixon's BGA package is less than a tenth of an inch in thickness, which is paper-thin, and weighs less than a nickel, according to: developer.intel.com Plus, Dixon's 1.6 volt power supply also helps tremendously in the mobile market. It's design advantages allows Intel to charge a pretty good price premium on the Dixon. Meanwhile, AMD's K6-3 has to run at 2.4 volts in order to get to 400 MHz. You'll have a hard time convincing me that you can take the exact same desktop chip and drop the speed by only 50 MHz while dropping the core voltage down to 2.0 volts. Tenchusatsu