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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: fyo who wrote (63639)6/28/1999 11:17:00 PM
From: Elmer  Read Replies (1) of 1571602
 
rE: "As I posted earlier today, the SPEC scores were achieved under NT (and NT only). Windows98 was used only for the Winbench scores."

In the absence of any published claim to that effect I don't think you can assume it is true.

Re: "With regards to the latter part: None of us know what the absolute score of the unit Dirk Meyer used was (Intel _or_ AMD), so Elmer could not have found one that was .5% faster."

Dirk made his comparison between a Xeon and a K7 while AMD compared against a PIII. A look at the SPEC scores shows no PIII scores for 550MHz, but at 500MHz there is as much as 8.33% difference between a PIII and a Xeon, almost exactly the lead AMD is claiming for the K7. So in the bewildering absence of scores or OS clarification I think there are more questions than answers.

Plus there is NOTHING to stop AMD from publishing estimates, just like Alpha did long before actually shipping 21264s. The refusal to clarify suggests that there is nothing to gain and everything to lose by providing real data. Especially at the same time the company is sheepishly admitting to STAGGERING losses for Q2 and likely even worse loses for Q3. The "announcement" had no benchmarks, no product, no customers, but a real nice new set of foils! Just the kind of thing to make the "true believers" giddy with delight. Flip a few more foils, shovel em another load of BS and they'll be happy for a couple more months, works every time! Then do it all over again. It's been working for years so why stop now?

EP
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