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Subject: Re: Celeron

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 13:27:34 03/20/00

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On March 20, 2000 at 15:51:26, Jeremiah Penery wrote:

>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.

Saying a Celeron is some flavor of a Pentium III is still wrong. The Celeron
does not have SSE instructions.

-Tom



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