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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (49762)2/16/1999 6:08:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr   of 1581935
 
Pravin - RE: "http://www.ars-technica.com/cpu/1q99/slot-one-8.html"

Yet another article that gives no reason whatsoever to shell out the dough for the PIII.

This part is nice -

"We won't know for sure until the PIII reaches the .18 micron fab
process and its attendant jump in core speeds, but we're starting to
wonder if perhaps Intel has another problem on its hands. You have
to understand that the core of the PII, the Celeron and the PIII is
more or less the same core as the original Pentium Pro. This
processor core started out at 150MHz, folks. It's a good design, but
Intel may be reaching a point of diminishing returns on its
sixth-generation core."

I can imagine Tom's conclusionto be slightly like the one at that site. Although Tom may have a few SSE-enhanced games when he publishes the report, he is going to say wait for the real PIII. Unfortunately for those people willing to wait, the PIII may run on the 100MHz bus until Q3.

Intel is trying too hard to compete with AMD, they are beginning to have delays of their own.
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