AMD Zone heeft geruchten (afkomstig van JC) dat de Intel Coppermine misschien niet in Slot1 formaat gefabriekt zal worden. Basicly komt dat erop neer dat je mooie Slot1 plank waardeloos wordt als je wilt upgraden naar de PIII/Coppermine:
Marc let me know that JC has heard a rumor from a reliable source that Coppermine might not be available in a slot format. This sort of makes sense because the Coppermine will have an on die L2 cache. So basically it's a souped up Celeron. And if you don't have a L2 cache to put on the slot, why do it? Ok, so what would the implications be for AMD? Will they design a socket K7. It is very possible. But in the meantime, motherboard manufacturers will have plenty of left over socket 1 parts to use for K7 boards. :) Hopefully this will be a good reason for them to support Slot A, you know, Abit. I'm talking to you guys. :) Plus, I'm pretty sure this would piss off a few Intel customers that bought those nice Abit BX6 rev 2.0 boards, so much so, that they might go with the K7 instead of Coppermine. I know it would piss me off.
