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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]
The AMD Athlon MP Processor With 512KB L2 Cache
White Papers This white paper talks about the AMD Athlon MP Processor with 512KB L2 Cache. With the AMD Athlon MP processor, AMD offers Smart MP technology, a multiprocessing architecture enabling exceptionally fast performance and excellent scalability beyond...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
The AMD Athlon XP Processor With 512KB L2 Cache: Technology And Performance Leadership For X86 Microprocessors
White Papers This white paper describes the architecture of the new AMD Athlon XP processor with 512KB L2 cache, codenamed ‘Barton’. It is manufactured on state-of-the-art, 130 nanometer copper technology and is the newest member to the family of seventh...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
The AMD Athlon™ XP Processor With 512KB L2 Cache
White Papers With the introduction of the new AMD Athlon XP processor with 512KB L2 cache and 0.13-micron process technology, AMD continues its tradition of technology innovation in enabling one of the highest levels of delivered desktop PC performance.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
The AMD Athlon XP Processor With 512KB L2 Cache
White Papers AMD continues its tradition of technology innovation in enabling one of the highest levels of delivered desktop PC performance. The paper provides an in-depth look at how the new AMD Athlon XP processor with 512KB L2 on 0.13-micron process...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Enabling An Innovative Cache Architecture For Personal Computing
White Papers Additionally, the processor offers 128KB of L1 cache--four times the L1 cache of competing x86 processors--along with a 512KB external backside L2 cache running at up to half the speed of the processor core.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
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]
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 Readies Penryn Processors
News The five Penryn processors will have Core frequencies of 2.8GHz, 2.6GHz, 2.5GHz, 2.4GHz and 2.1GHz and the L2 cache will be 6MB for the 2.8-2.5GHz versions and 3MB for 2.4-2.1GHz versions, according to the sources.
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