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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Saturn V who wrote (65013)7/12/1999 9:25:00 PM
From: Ali Chen  Read Replies (3) of 1579958
 
Saturn, <I shall clarify my statement. The K-6 and K-62 will become memory starved at very high MHZ because of sharing a common bus for L1 & L2.>
Perhaps you shall clarify also what metric do you
use to characterize the level of memory starvation,
and what kind of workload are you talking about.

Second, as it is well known, the market does not
inderstand the "performance improvements", does not
believe in benchmarks, and therefore does not care
about it much. What the market does care for is a
very simple metrics like MHz, cu.in, or alike.
As you have seen, even some Product Engineers
cannot sometimes compare what is bigger and what
is smaller, and how many times smaller. What
would you expect from them if the performance
is defined on a multidimensional space.
Therefore, as Jim McMannis says, "MHz sells".

Take care,
- Ali
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