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.)
MSG
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