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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Charles R who wrote (84350)12/30/1999 1:44:00 AM
From: Cirruslvr  Read Replies (1) of 1583244
 
Chuck - RE: "Somewhere you got brainwashed. Athlon to CuMine-PIII is what Katmai-PIII was to K6-3 - only better. Athlon currently offers better performance than CuMine even with 2nd rate infrastructure."

I think Athlon offers awesome performance even with 2nd rate infrastructure, but its platform performance currently doesn't offer a large advantage over the best Cumine platform in all applications. But since the best Cumine platform costs so much, the AThlon platform is clearly the leader in overall price/performance/features.

Obviously when dealing with practically pure FPU applications, the Athlon's performance makes Cumine look completely inferior.

"Or, were you one of the souls who considered K6-3 to be better than PIII?"

Only in business apps...

"Some pretty knowledgeable folks at Intel tell me that they expect Wilamette/Foster to have an edge on Athlon/Mustang but be behind Sledgehammer. So, there is a project at Intel to fix that - a new core is targetted for H2 2001. The AMD guys on the other hand think that Mustang is going to be no slouch compared to Wilamette and that Foster will get killed by Sledgehammer."

Interesting stuff. Do you know how AMD and Intel make estimates about each other's future processors like this when they probably don't know much about the actual processor?

"Other than Paul, pretty much every other data point I have says that Dreden is a done deal."

In my eyes, it isn't a done deal until it starts up, processors are sold from there, and no big production problems occur.
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