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Subject: Re: Athlon 1,1GHz

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 20:00:35 02/09/00

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On February 09, 2000 at 22:36:05, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>On February 09, 2000 at 22:10:31, Eugene Nalimov wrote:
>
>>On February 09, 2000 at 21:13:05, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On February 09, 2000 at 18:18:24, Paulo Soares wrote:
>>>
>>>>I think that shortly we will enter in the Gigahertz era.
>>>>AMD announced on Monday, 02-07 Athlon 1.1GHz.
>>>>
>>>>http://www.amd.com/news/prodpr/20054.html
>>>>
>>>>Paulo Soares, from Brazil
>>>
>>>
>>>Lonnie has been running a 1gigahertz athlon (Kryotech I think) for a month
>>>or so.  Nothing super-remarkable...
>>
>>Gigahertz Athlon have integrated L2 cache.
>
>but how fast in mhz are the caches running ?
>2/5 speed again ?

Integrated = on-die. So it should be running at the same speed as the core. But
the design of the L2 cache may have increased latencies, so it's possible that
it won't be as fast as some people think it "should" be.

-Tom



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