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To: Scumbria who wrote (54292)	4/5/1999 4:48:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573925

Scumbria, on a tangent ... <I'm sure that Whitney is a fine chipset, but I'll bet it doesn't have L3 support.> Did you know that there are some design teams outside of Intel which are designing IA-64 chipsets with huge amounts of L3 cache on the motherboard? (This L3 would be in addition to Merced's L0, L1, and L2 caches for a grand total of four layers of cache.) And this is just the tip of the IA-64 iceburg. Tenchusatsu

To: Scumbria who wrote (54292)	4/5/1999 5:39:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573925

scum bria - Re: "I'm sure that Whitney is a fine chipset, but I'll bet it doesn't have L3 support." It won't. It is targeted at the sub $1000 PC segment and with on-chip L2 cache for its Celerons, it is aiming for low parts count on the motherboard. With a 466 MHz Celeron and a Whitney chip set, the K63's are in deep trouble - since they REQUIRE L3 cache for reasonable performance. K63 systems will then be the HIGH COST alternative. Expect Kmart 63's to begin tumbling in price by the end of this month. Paul