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To: RDM who wrote (57225)	5/4/1999 11:27:00 PM
From: kash johal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572472

RDM, Re: K7 and 2/4/8Mb of L2 cache As I understand it the cache SRAM parts are packaged in some kind of PQFP package and then assembled onto the cartridge. These are not even chip on board assembly. So the incremental expense and complexity of the extra RAM is negligible. As K7's will be scarce AMD would be better served by flogging a large percentage of the parts with large amounts of cache particularly into the server/workstation space. I agree that it was smart of them to have the ability to support large off chip L2 cache's and the SPEC numbers certainly show that large L2 caches buy you an awfull lot. Regards, Kash