John de Gelas van Ace's Hardware heeft een erg informatief artikel over de K6-2+ online gezet. De K6-2+ is feitelijk een doorontwikkeling van de K6-III en heeft dezelfde tri-level cache architectuur, alleen nu met maar 128Kb L2 cache. De 24 nieuwe 3DNow! instructies die in de Athlon werden geïntroduceerd worden nu ook ondersteund. K6-III's met een foutgebakken L2 cache zullen verkocht worden als K6-2. Volgens bronnen van Ace's Hardware wordt het op exemplaren met volledig intact L2 cache wellicht mogelijk om de volle 256Kb via het BIOS te activeren:
Astute readers will have noticed that the K6-2+ has 256 KB L2-cache on board, just like the K6-III. However, the K6-2+ will only use 128 KB of the full 256 KB on-die cache. Most K6-IIIs yield at the full 256 KB L2-cache, but a small percentage yield less. Therefore, if AMD only enables 128 KB, all K6-IIIs can be sold as K6-2+s. Remember, AMD is looking for the K6-2+ to compete with the Celeron and 128 KB is just enough to do so.All parts will be sold as as K6-2+s with a guaranteed working 128 kb of L2 cache, but most parts will be able to use 256 KB L2-cache, so why not use the full 256 KB? Reports are coming in that with most K6-2+ we will be able to enable the remaining 128 KB cache through the BIOS. Can you believe that?
It gets better. You can drop this cheap chip into any Super 7 motherboard as the core voltage is at 2.2V! This chip is expected to be released at 550 MHz in February (probably the 10th) and should reach 600 MHz in the coming months. There will be two versions: one with Gemini for the mobile market and one for the desktop market.