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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