AMD XP and Winchip

[Guest]

Just to remind me the obsolete winchip technology ( now VIA ) seems like similar to AMD XP.

Is it XP using such concept with it technology improve version in quantum leap? 64 + 64 L1 chache ...I am pretty confuse... where is the L2 chache? Like the old AMD k6 cpu, on Mobo?

Can somebody please help explain in layman term to this dummy? thanks.


oh! is the architech within the MP chip is the same as XP? no built in L2 chache?

 

[Olfin_Bedwere]

All AMD chips since the Athlon Classic (K7) have had their L2 cache mounted on the chip in some way. For the K7 it was on 2 seperate chips running at 1/3 the core speed. For the TBird, Duron, MP and XP, it was mounted on-die, running at core speed.

And the MP is TOTALLY identical to the XP! At least until later this year when SMP support will be disabled on the XP and Duron chips.

 

[AMD_Man]

The AMD Athlon XP has 256KB of full-speed on die L2 cache with hardware data-prefetch.

AMD technology + Intel technology = Intel/AMD Pentathlon IV; the <b>ULTIMATE</b> PC processor

 

[Guest]

what is SMP and the purpose for it?


thanks for your patient

 

[FatBurger]

SMP stands for Symmetric Multi-Processing

Simply put, it's using more than one processor at once.

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