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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Charles R who wrote (71062)9/4/1999 11:24:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (2) of 1574854
 
<What benefit would AMD get by being too far ahead of Intel on speed grades?>

I don't mean going too far ahead. I mean going far enough to hit 650 MHz, one speed grade ahead of Intel's current top-of-the-line. If AMD could do it, all their Athlons would be sold at 650 MHz. Even at $800 a pop, they'll still be able to sell everything they could make. The fact that AMD is grading a lot of their parts at 550 and 600 MHz tells me that not all of their parts can really run at 650 MHz and above.

Besides, AMD had enough warning. When Intel announced the Coppermine delay back in June (I think), they said that Katmai would be released at 600 MHz in August. If AMD were truly sandbagging the numbers, they could have shifted their "sandbags" earlier so that we'd see a lot of 650 MHz parts by this time. The fact that the 650 MHz speed grade is still in the phantom stage tells me that not all Athlons can be overclocked like the web sites are suggesting.

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