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Subject: Re: Detailed description of AMD K7 "Athlon" chip

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 11:07:37 08/12/99

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On August 12, 1999 at 13:09:58, Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com) wrote:

>There has been a lot of interest here in AMD's new chip, which seems likely to
>provide excellent performance for many chess programs.
>
>Here's a very detailed (ca. 30 pages) description of the AMD K7/"Athlon"
>processor architecture with (non-chess) benchmarks.
>
>Richard A. Fowell

Not much news at AMD site.

For non-bitboards programs very interesting to repeat might be that
the branch prediction table is 2048 entires, 4 times bigger than
from the PRO/PII/PIII/Xeon

Greetings,
Vincent



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