Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 10:03:19 11/11/02
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On November 10, 2002 at 19:39:45, Jeremiah Penery wrote: Look further. there is even evidence on paper here in computer magazines where reporters write about the k7 getting 8 capable. This is a few years ago of course. Short before k7 got onto the market. Of course they have experience now getting it to work dual, so that should help them with future SMP releases. We will see. I doubt however the times quoted. Any form of SMP into hammer will take years to get it to 8 cpu's. If it gets 8 cpu shared memory anyway. Even though their design, like that of the K7, allows that. I see it as a marketing promise simply, marketing people are great in promising things. I do not understand why you forgot about these K7 promises at all. It was *hot* news when it was first announced by K7 marketing people. >On November 10, 2002 at 16:54:43, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On November 10, 2002 at 10:36:21, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >> >>I filled in at www.google.com next keywords: >> >>K7 8 processor capable >> >>First link i got there was this: >> http://www.geek.com/procspec/amd/k7.htm >> >>If you search further you'll see so many articles from around 2000 where >>a 8 processor K7 system was promised. Especially 'reviews'. They just >>quoted of course what the AMD department promised. > >I read through several pages of links from that search, and found only one other >MENTION of 4/8 way K7 machines. Supposedly a company called 'HotRail' was >developing such chipsets, but they were bought out by Conexant in June 2000. > >There is nothing even remotely resembling a 'promise' from AMD about 4/8 way SMP >systems that I could find. > >I also tried searching for K7 SMP, which didn't turn up anything useful (99% of >the links are about the Linux kernel patches or such). > >I can imagine that Compaq's official killing of Alpha might have had something >to do with 4/8 way k7 boards not being built, since K7 uses the same bus as >Alpha EV6, and there was supposed to have been the prospect of sharing >motherboard designs. But this is speculation.
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