Fwd: AMD x2 chips

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 14:25 -0600, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> Some of the Tyan boards described on their website seem to imply that 
> they have 4-way interleaved RAM (Quad-channel they call it) for some of 
> their dual-core boards, that might be the difference you mention .... 
> $0.02, no more, no less :-).

Interleaving is just a performance hack to minimize latency.
But it makes sense because you could interleave core requests.


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