Hi Charles! :-)

 PS>> Heh. Exactly the reason why I have 640M in my machine. Now
 PS>> imagine how fast a machine with an on-CPU cache of that
 PS>> size would be. ;) 
 CA> Intel will get around to that eventually. :-) 
Yeah, more stuff than now will probably end up in the CPU core because
designing motherboards (not to speak of the parts needed) for the insane
speeds that CPUs nowadays run at is almost impossible. You simply can't
have an on-board bus going at, say, 3 GHz. To the CPU, everything outside
it's core runs at snail's pace.

Ciao
Pascal

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