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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Scumbria who wrote (91675)2/5/2000 12:20:00 PM
From: Charles R   of 1575587
 
Scumbria,

<The (rumored) deep pipeline in Willamette would likely scale to very high MHz.>

From all indications Wilamette core is rated higher in MHz than current Athlon. How it compares to Mustang is not entirely clear but it is conceivable that Wilamette could still have a theoritical MHz edge.

The factors other than pipelines that determine the MHz leadership on a quarterly basis are:
- Process (not at all clear to me Intel has a lead here anymore - we are trading off notches against Cu and the advantage of having just one fab to upgrade)
- Die size (edge to Thunderbird/Mustang)
- Power (could be a pretty large edge to Thunderbird/Mustang)

And of course execution risk. Intel is working with a huge amount of time pressure.

So, Intel may have a theoritically faster core but needs to execute extremely well in other areas to turn that into to a reality this year.

Chuck
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