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Subject: Re: Celeron

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 12:51:26 03/20/00

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On March 20, 2000 at 09:18:48, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>On March 20, 2000 at 06:55:26, Graham Laight wrote:
>
>>I have read that Celerons are made on the same production line as Pentium 3
>>processors.
>>
>>To turn a PIII into a Celeron, apparently they just disable 128K of the 256K
>>on-board cache.
>
>This will be true soon, but it isn't true now.
>
>The Celeron is a 0.25 micron Pentium II with 128k of "full speed" on-die cache,
>instead of 512k of "half speed" off-die cache.

This is the original PIII design.  In the Coppermines, the cache is also running
at the full processor clock rate.



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