Welcome back!------All hail AMD!
March 11, 2000
All hail AMD! The Athlon partisans can enjoy a long, cold
smirk at Intel's expense -- again. This week, AMD was the
first to announce and release a 1,000-MHz PC processor.
That's 1 GHz -- "one gigahertz" -- in the electro-techno-
metric system we all use now.
Intel followed up with its own announcement just days
later, but the top-speed Pentium III won't be broadly
available until July at the earliest. AMD will sell its
chips to all comers in April, so AMD is actually beating
Intel by months. In the meantime, you can order 1-GHz PCs
now from a handful of large vendors.
Unless you're a speeds-and-feeds nut, you don't need to pay
close attention to every chip advance. (There are too many
of them!) But this week is a milestone, the likes of which
we won't see again. If you ever plan to buy a new computer
or game machine, take a minute to find out what's happening
now and what comes next. It won't hurt a bit.
Stephen Howard-Sarin
Editor, ZDNet
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