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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Paul Engel who wrote (80178)11/17/1999 12:06:00 AM
From: Elmer  Read Replies (3) of 1571586
 
Re: "Intel's 5 year old 6'th generation x86 whomps all over the brand new shiny AMD 7'th generation AthWIPE !!!"

What I can't understand is why Compaq would pass up the ultra new, ultra advanced Athlon and go and release it's new workstations based on that old Intel Xeon CuMine. I thought Compaq hated Intel and couldn't wait for the chance to use AMD's new Athlon. Why didn't they use the Athlon instead of the CuMine Xeon? Do you think that fact that the Intel processor posted the fastest SpecInt95 scores ever recorded* might have something to do with it?

EP

* Who would have thought just a couple of years ago that we could possibly make this statement? The Alpha was going to totally destroy Intel's processors. The PPC was so new and so advanced that Intel was as good as history. Athlon was going to change the processor landscape forever. Now who stands at the top? When they were supposed to be relegated to the scrap heap of history Intel stands alone with the fastest SpecInt95 scores ever recorded... Simply amazing.....
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