Space schrijft: "Binnenkort kunnen we twee nieuwe CPU's van AMD verwachten; de Spitfire en de Thunderbird. De Thunderbird zal 256KB on-die L2 cache krijgen. De Spitfire, een afgeslankte versie hiervan, krijgt 128 KB on-die L2 cache en zal in socket uitvoering verschijnen. Rond 2001 verschijnt de Mustang met mogelijk 1MB cache":
The upcoming Thunderbird device will boost performance by transforming the Athlon's current 512 kbytes of off-chip L2 cache into 256 kbytes of on-die L2 cache. Brookwood noted that Intel used the same strategy to turn its Katmai chip into the Coppermine, with cache sizes in the same ranges as the Athlon and Thunderbird designs.[..] The Spitfire, meanwhile, will feature a 128-kbyte on-die L2 cache along with its new socket infrastructure. The current Athlon chips use a cartridge packaging scheme, and Dean McCarron, principal analyst for Mercury Research (Scottsdale, Ariz.), said that switching to a socket-based design could save $10 to $15 on every part.
[..] The first Spitfire chips are expected to ship next quarter, and will ramp throughout the rest of the year. The Thunderbird will be slightly behind that schedule, according to Brookwood, likely appearing early in the third quarter.
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