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Chapter 1

AMD-K6™-2E Processor

22529B/0—January 2000

AMD-K6™-2E Processor Data Sheet

Preliminary Information

Super7™ Platform Enhancements

100-MHz processor bus —The AMD-K6-2E processor supports a 100-MHz, 800

Mbyte/second frontside bus to provide a high-speed interface to Super7

platform-based chipsets. The 100-MHz interface to the frontside Level 2 (L2)

cache and main system memory speeds up access to the frontside cache and main

memory by 50 percent over the 66-MHz Socket 7 interface, resulting in a

significant increase of 10% in overall system performance.

Accelerated graphics port support —AGP improves the performance of video

graphics systems that have small amounts of video memory on the graphics card.

The industry-standard AGP specification enables a 133-MHz graphics interface

and will scale to even higher levels of performance.

Support for backside L2 and frontside L3 cache—The Super7 platform has the

‘headroom’ to support higher-performance AMD-K6 processors with clock speeds

scaling to 500 MHz and beyond. The Super7 platform also supports the

AMD-K6-III processor, which features a full-speed, internal backside 256-Kbyte L2

cache designed to deliver new levels of system performance to desktop and

notebook PC systems. The AMD-K6-III processor also supports an optional

100-MHz frontside L3 cache for even higher-performance system configurations.

Super7™ Platform Advantages

The Super7 platform has the following advantages:

Delivers performance and features competitive with alternate platforms at the

same clock speed, and at a significantly lower cost

Takes advantage of existing system designs for superior value

Enables OEMs and resellers to take advantage of mature, high-volume

infrastructure supported by multiple BIOS, chipset, graphics, and motherboard

suppliers

Reduces inventory and design costs with one motherboard for a wide range of

products

Builds on a huge installed base of more than 100 million motherboards

Provides an easy upgrade path for future embedded applications, as well as a

bridge to legacy applications

By taking advantage of the low-cost, mature Socket 7 infrastructure, the Super7

platform will continue to provide superior value and leading-edge performance for

embedded systems.

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