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Taiwanese firm claims L2 cache hassles are over
News Eurom, the UK agent for Taiwanese L2 cache maker EtronTech, claims its new COASt 3.0 products will provide compatibility with all system designs that meet the 3.0 specifcation. The devices are available in 256Kb and 512Kb capacities and operate at...
[November 1, 1996, 11:01]
New Pentium Pro to boast 1Mb L2 cache
News The Pentium Pro currently has a maximum of 512Kb of L2 cache. Cache is the dedicated bank of memory that acts as a temporary holding place for instructions being sent to the CPU. It works much faster than a hard drive, and the bigger the cache, the...
[August 14, 1997, 9:07]
Intel - 'How fast are those Celerons?'
News PC Week Labs' tests of two Celeron-based systems released this week show that the once-gutless--no L2 (Level 2) cache--Celeron chip with a consumer focus has been transformed into a serious contender for corporate desktop PCs.
[January 5, 1999, 9:05]
Intel Prescott: the benchmarks review
Reviews Intel’s new ‘Prescott’ Pentium 4 has double the L1 and L2 cache of its ‘Northwood’ predecessor. The new Prescott CPU has more cache memory than its Northwood predecessor: both the L1 and the L2 caches are now twice as large as before, at 16KB and...
[February 2, 2004, 10:05]
AMD prepares two new Athlon technologies
News A new technology code-named Thunderbird will see level 2 (L2) cache integrated on-chip with the Athlon CPU. In essence you can work out performance increase by multiplying it relative to the cache size," he says
[January 24, 2000, 16:50]
Motorola rolls PowerPC into UK
News The StarMax 3000 has a standard configuration of 256Kb L2 cache, 16Mb RAM, 1.2Gb hard drive and three PCI slots. Motorola's StarMax 4000 contains 512Kb L2 cache, 16MB RAM, 2Mb to 4Mb video EDO DRAM, 1.2Gb hard drive and three PCI slots.
[September 19, 1996, 9:15]
Benchmarks: Intel's first 45nm Penryn chip review
Reviews Intel's first processor in the 45nm Penryn family (see table below) is a 3GHz quad-core desktop chip with 12MB of L2 cache, codenamed Yorkfield. For comparison, we also added a 3GHz Pentium 4 with 1MB of L2 cache to the benchmark test.
[November 11, 2007, 11:39]
One Year Ago: Grove details new Intel DIB architecture
News DIB is demanded by the Pentium II (to be formally announced early in May) and comprises both an L2 cache bus and processor-to-memory system bus. The single dedicated L2 cache on the Pentium II processor is twice as fast as the L2 cache on a Pentium...
[April 14, 1998, 7:00]
Grove details new Intel DIB architecture
News DIB is demanded by the Pentium II (to be formally announced early in May) and comprises both an L2 cache bus and processor-to-memory system bus. The single dedicated L2 cache on the Pentium II processor is twice as fast as the L2 cache on a Pentium...
[April 14, 1997, 9:32]
AMD introduces Socket 939 Athlon 64 chips review
Reviews Level 2 cache The latter, the $710 Athlon 64 3700+, has 1MB of L2 cache and an 800MHz HyperTransport bus, together with a single-channel 64-bit memory interface. Giving Athlon 64s more and faster memory access in turn lets AMD market chips with...
[June 1, 2004, 9:10]
Five years ago: Grove details new Intel DIB architecture
News DIB is demanded by the Pentium II (to be formally announced early in May) and comprises both an L2 cache bus and processor-to-memory system bus. The single dedicated L2 cache on the Pentium II processor is twice as fast as the L2 cache on a Pentium...
[May 14, 2002, 7:01]
Five years ago: Grove details new Intel DIB architecture
News DIB is demanded by the Pentium II (to be formally announced early in May) and comprises both an L2 cache bus and processor-to-memory system bus. The single dedicated L2 cache on the Pentium II processor is twice as fast as the L2 cache on a Pentium...
[April 12, 2002, 7:01]
Comdex: AMD steps up the pressure
News Bolstered by a 128KB L1 cache and 256KB L2 on-chip cache, the 400MHz chip outperformed a 450MHz Pentium II based on the Winstone 98 benchmark in a show demonstration. NT is a very integer intensive operating system and the L2 cache will give us a...
[November 18, 1998, 22:50]
CPU roadmap: Intel and AMD's new chips
News The chips will be AMD's first high-end processors to integrate the L2 cache onto the die, allowing the cache access speed to keep up with the processor speed. Both will include a large on-die L2 cache and a reduced core size allowing for greater...
[May 3, 2000, 8:08]
US Report: New Intel processors on the way
News A new 300MHz MMX chip will join Intel's new 266MHz and 300MHz Celerons, which include 128KB of integrated cache. Code-named Dixon, the Pentium II Enhanced processors will include 256KB of integrated L2 (Level 2) cache, which should push the chip's...
[December 21, 1998, 9:20]
Focus: Processor makers' flippin' genius
News Older chips, such as Intel's Pentium II or the current family of AMD's Athlons, reside in a "slot" package, which encases the processor and the L2 cache in a rectangular case. The L2 cache stores frequently-used information, and the speed at which...
[May 2, 2000, 9:11]
Benchmarks: AMD's 45nm 'Shanghai' Opteron review
Reviews In Shanghai, AMD has stuck with the three-level cache architecture established with Barcelona. Intel's Xeon 5400-series server CPUs have 12MB of cache, and these processors can be viewed as direct competitors to the Shanghai two-processor models.
[November 20, 2008, 12:46]
Dual-core AMD Turion: slow out of the gate review
Reviews One possible explanation is that the Turion 64 X2 serves up half the L2 cache (1MB) found on the Core Duo (2MB). Core Duo chips can dip into a larger pool of L2 cache as they make their way through SysMark workloads.
[June 26, 2006, 10:35]
Intel eyes 450MHz chips, 'lean' clients
News By early 1998, Intel will deliver a 333MHz processor with 512KB of L2 cache, followed by a 350MHz, 400MHz and, finally, the 450MHz version, Barrett said. In addition to delivering a lower-cost, no-cache version of the Pentium II in mid-1998, the...
[November 10, 1997, 9:14]
Intel catches up with its 64-bit competitors review
Reviews For starters, the new 600 parts have twice the amount of L2 cache that the previous generation had. The Pentium 4 600 series features 2MB of L2 cache to the 500 series' 1MB allotment, which allows the chips to quickly access more frequently used...
[February 22, 2005, 6:40]
