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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Petz who wrote (86131)1/9/2000 4:18:00 AM
From: Process Boy  Read Replies (1) of 1573427
 
Petz - <After reading the whole thing over again, the overall impression is that the Athlon team has exceeded all expectations which existed 15 months ago, and this despite less than ideal partner support (VIA and motherboards), the Taiwan quake, Intel ramping to 600 MHz ahead of schedule and other internal problems (K6-3, K6-2 CXT core problems, etc).>

I tend to agree. AMD seems to be executing on the Athlon. The only thing I can pick on is this statement:

Again, the K7 will be the highest performance processor in both integer and floating point.

FLP, yes. Integer...?

<Edit>Oh, one more thing. Dresden remains to be heard from as of yet <end edit>.

PB

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