On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Jamin W. Collins wrote:

> Funny part is that I seem to recall some meantion of Intel claiming that
> socket based solution were not viable for the faster processors. =)
>
> --
> Jamin W. Collins

Indeed, but early p2's had problems with too much heat dissipation, and
with chip fab yields when the cache was built into the cpu.  Hence, the
splitting of cpu and cache.  Once yields went back to something normal,
combined again.

Mike


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