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- Path: sparky!dsndata!backbone!backbone!wayne
- From: wayne@backbone.uucp (Wayne Schlitt)
- Subject: Re: 100 Mips Intel NeXT (processor comparison)
- In-Reply-To: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu's message of Thu, 31 Dec 1992 02: 23:17 GMT
- Message-ID: <WAYNE.92Dec31074958@backbone.uucp>
- Sender: wayne@backbone (Wayne Schlitt)
- Organization: The Backbone Cabal
- References: <1992Dec24.190008.25875@ohsu.edu> <BzvJys.CwD@cs.mcgill.ca>
- <1992Dec31.013141.132685@zeus.calpoly.edu>
- <1992Dec31.022317.17674@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 13:49:58 GMT
-
- In article <1992Dec31.022317.17674@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
- > >
- > >Don't be surprised if CPU's start coming out with 1 meg of onboard cache
- > >within the next year...
- >
- >
- > Is this really likely, given the complexity (according to
- > net rumor) already involved in fabricating the Alpha?
-
-
- If "onboard" means "on the motherboard", then yes, I would expect that
- some of the high end alpha systems will probably have 1MB of cache.
- If "onboard" means "on the chip", then no, you will not see cache
- sizes like that for at least 5 years. The standard DRAM is 4Mbit,
- which is .5MByte, so fabrication techniques aren't even up to having
- that much memory along with a cpu on a chip, let alone having that
- memory be fast SRAM. (what's the current SRAM density nowadays
- anyway?)
-
-
- -wayne
-