JC heeft z'n CPU roadmap voor het eerste en target=new>tweede kwartaal van 1999 geupdate. Handig als je ff de specs wilt weten van de Alpha 21264, Winchip 3, Motorola G4, Ultrasparc II enz. Hier alvast de info over de K7:
K7
Manufacturer: AMD
Codename:
Release date: 06/??
Platform: Slot-A
Clock rate: 500MHz?, 550MHz?, 600MHz?
L1 cache: 128K Harvard
L2 cache: 512K off-chip (slow L2, half cpu MHz), future possibilities up to 8MB full cpu MHz
SMP: Yes (point to point)
The big deal: Are you kidding? 200MHz cpu-to-chipset "bus", triple execute (third=load/store), fully pipelined floating point unit, three issue integer, three issue ALU, 72 instruction internal scheduler, about twice the pipeline depth of the K6-x, need I continue?? Comments: Initial K7 expected to better than blow away just about all other offerings in 1999. Will be really, really expensive, though, and is intended for the server/enthusiast market.
