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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Petz who wrote (85633)1/6/2000 5:57:00 PM
From: Petz  Read Replies (1) of 1573092
 
Jim, I guess you should forgive Linley Gwennap for stealing your "MHz sell(s)." It was his swan song:

Being a Speed Demon doesn't solve everything. For applications larger than the meager SPECint95, designers must supply adequate memory bandwidth to keep up with the fast CPU core. Speed Demons also burn more power, a problem in mobile systems. But being fast has another advantage: megahertz sell.

Over the next few years, the performance battles will be as
fierce as ever, pitting Intel against a newly reinvigorated AMD and IA-64 against a plethora of RISC server processors.

I've been honored to be your commentator for the past seven
years, but now it's time to sign off. In the immortal words of Douglas Adams: So long, and thanks for all the fish.

-- Linley Gwennap


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