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- From: rrm@ssdp.caltech.edu (Ron Marquardt)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: IBM Clock-tripled 486
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- Date: 16 Nov 92 21:18:45 GMT
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- Organization: California Institute of Technology
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- So, I understand that IBM announced a clock-tripled (33MHz/99MHz) version
- of the 486 (a DX3?) at Comdex. Can anyone in the know at IBM (or Intel)
- comment further on this? IBM supposedly designed this chip under their
- existing licensing agreement with Intel. If I understand that agreement
- properly, IBM has 6 months to exclusively do their thing with it before
- Intel can provide their own version to the masses. Is that correct?
- Also, what kind of incremental/marginal gain is there to clock tripling?
- Does this chip have extra cache to compensate for the additional I/O burden?
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- Thanks.
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