Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 17:09:32 06/21/02
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On June 21, 2002 at 19:09:17, Robert Henry Durrett wrote: >On June 21, 2002 at 16:56:43, Sean Mintz wrote: > >>Hammers are looking to have up to 1, and maybe even 2, megabytes of cache. > >That certainly is an "eye opener." The plot thickens! :) > >Another poster provided information about the number of clock cycles required to >get info to or from a cache and showed that it depended a lot on which cache. >So, the question is, which cache is going to be that big? How many clock cycles >required? [Need to say which clock rate is involved]. > >Incidentally, I'm not sure that "hammer" is the right word. Doesn't the code >name change from generation to generation? Isn't there a new code name for the >generation after the hammers? Maybe that's the generation we should be talking >about. Hammer is the AMD 64 bit chip. Claw hammer is the desktop version and sledge hammer is the server version. Neither is shipping.
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