AMD is planning to match as closely as possible Intel´s Celeron in clock speeds. AMD is expected to release Spitfire at four clock speeds, source said: 550MHz, 600MHz, 650MHz and 700MHz. Spitfire will sport 128KB of onboard Level 2 cache. The current K6-2 processor has 512KB of off-chip cache. Integrating cache increases performance and should give the chip an additional performance boost.

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