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Per Bjornsson perbj at stanford.edu
Wed Jul 6 19:55:47 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 13:17 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> One change that might happen though -- there are newer CPUs that
> have (or will have soon) NX capability, but aren't SMP.
> (VIA have a chip ready, Intel are alleged to be putting NX in their
>  next line of laptop processors, probably AMD too).

Actually, the socket 754 AMD Semprons appear to be in this category too:
they support NX and are 32-bit. These appear to be all mobile Semprons
and desktop chips with model numbers >=3100+. And they are shipping,
most likely in significantly higher quantity than the VIA processors.

/Per

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Per Bjornsson <perbj at stanford.edu>
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University




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