Author: Terry Presgrove
Date: 16:45:31 11/16/98
I just read that AMD's new K-7 chip will support multi-processing but I'm not sure it will be shared memory? Here is the quote from AMD's home page. "About the AMD-K7(TM) Processor The AMD-K7 processor with 3DNow!(TM) technology is a Microsoft® Windows® compatible, seventh-generation design featuring a deeply pipelined, nine-issue superscalar microarchitecture optimized for high clock frequency; a superscalar pipelined floating point unit; 128KB of on-chip level one (L1) cache; a programmable high-performance backside L2 cache interface; and a 200 MHz Alpha EV6 compatible system bus interface with support for scalable multiprocessing. The AMD-K7 processor is slated for introduction in the first half of 1999 and is planned to operate at clock frequencies greater than 500 MHz." I guess the key phrase is "scalable multiprocessing" anyone have a clue as to what this means? I am particularly interested in its impact on chess programs?
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