> The Athlon FSB in fact transmits data on rise and fall of one cycle.
> It is clocked at 100MHz but is twice as fast as Intel's FSB of 100MHz
> (and that's why marketing wants to sell it as 200MHz - that's data
> rate, not clock rate). And this is not a future expansion possibility,
> it does it right now.
unfortunately, all Athlon bandwidth reports (Stream benchmark) are
not dramatically different from comparable Intel bandwidths. that is,
in the 4-500 MB/s range.
> It gets even cooler when you consider it won't have a bus for SMP like
> Intel - where all CPUs share the bandwidth. Each Athlon will get the
> full bandwidth to the chipset through individual ports instead of
> sharing a bus.
there's no reason Intel can't produce a point-to-point bus based chipset.
it's mainly just a cost issue.
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