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Subject: Re: Thunderbird problems From: Gordon Messmer <yinyang@eburg.com> Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 10:45:55 -0700 (PDT) On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Bret Hughes wrote: > Tom's hardware did a good job explaining the differeces in the archectures. > There are significant differences. To back up Gordon's comment I think it is > interesting that AMD is getting the highspeeds and hav not even begun > shipping the .18 micron versions The Thunderbirds were the first of AMD's 0.18 micron tech. processors. See http://www.amd.com/news/prodpr/20093.html . AMD notes that they have two fabs producing them : ) > yet and the pentium is having trouble even > at that trace width. Tom's said that this would occur six months ago. What > I remember most is the multiple pipes into the memory subsystem from each of > the processor cores on the chip and the fact that the pentium has to share > the same bus. Ah, yeah. This is the beauty of their licensing the Alpha's EV6 bus technology. Each processor has a separate bus to the North bridge, which connects the processors to everything else. (In addition to that, the EV6 bus works at speed up to 400 Mhz! That's a fine looking future.) ===